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Google Software Beats Board-Game Champ in Three Straight Matches

  • AI system scores victory in televised `Go' game tournament
  • Beaten South Korean Lee Sedol considered world's best player
Lee Se-Dol, one of the greatest modern players of the ancient board game Go, arrives before the third game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match against Google-developed supercomputer AlphaGo at a hotel in Seoul on March 12, 2016.

Lee Se-Dol, one of the greatest modern players of the ancient board game Go, arrives before the third game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match against Google-developed supercomputer AlphaGo at a hotel in Seoul on March 12, 2016.

Photographer: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
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Chalk up another win for artificial intelligence. Google DeepMind’s AI system won its match against a top-ranked player of Go, as machine-learning software mastered the intricacies of the 2,500-year-old strategy board game.

The program scored its third victory against Lee Sedol Saturday, winning a five-match tournament. The South Korean is considered the world’s best player of Go in the past decade.