Go player to take on Chinese AI in match

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:23 am

it would be nice to see Tencent against alpha go. does not look like happening

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42493027

The world's top Go player will take on an artificial intelligence opponent again this spring, but this time it will not be Google's DeepMind that provides the machine rival.

Ke Jie had previously vowed never to play against AI again after repeatedly losing to DeepMind's AlphaGo.

But according to Chinese media reports, he will take on a range AI opponents, including one from China's Tencent.

The man-versus-machine series will take place in China in April 2018.

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Nineteen-year-old Jie took on AlphaGo in the spring of 2017, losing all three matches. Afterwards, DeepMind announced that its algorithm would officially retire from competitive Go playing.

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google's parent firm Alphabet, has said he thinks China could overtake the US in terms of AI within five years.