March 2016 sees AlphaGo face its next professional opponent, the world's top Go player Lee Sedol. Follow the match here. A computer has beaten a human professional for the first time at Go — an ...

In the world of deep-learning AI, the ancient board game Go looms large. Until 2016, the best human Go player could still defeat the strongest Go-playing AI. That changed with DeepMind’s AlphaGo, ...