Computer Wins Again In Chinese Game Of Go
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Thursday, May 25, 2017
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Google's AlphaGo program has won two games against Chinese player Ke Jie in the game of go, which has billions of possible moves and had been hard for computers to play.
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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
OK, Steve, time for a very quick story.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
All right.
MARTIN: Ready, set, go.
INSKEEP: Here we go. It's a story about a board game called Go, a game where players try to control space on what is essentially a really big, oversized checkerboard. Now, it's fairly simple learn the game, but the number of possible moves is staggering - apparently more than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
MARTIN: That's a lot. So until very recently, the game was just too hard for computers. This week, a Google program called AlphaGo is playing a series against Ke Jie. He's the world's top-ranked human player. Their first match started like this...
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UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Ke Jie versus AlphaGo. We'll conduct the game by the Chinese Go rules.
MARTIN: About four and a half hours later, AlphaGo won.
INSKEEP: (Laughter) Match number two is this morning, China time, and the computer won again, taking the series from the human. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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