In March 2016 an algorithm created by Google’s DeepMind called AlphaGo beat a world champion Lee Sedol in a game called Go.
Go is a board game with quite simple rules. In China, this game is played for over 3000 years (there are even specialized schools that train Go players). What exactly happened? Why this event made so many headlines and why all scientific environments around machine learning and Artificial Intelligence consider this a big breakthrough that nobody considered to happen for at least another decade?
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