Enlarge / It’s easy to know you’re playing an AI in-person, but what about online? (credit: Getty Images)
DeepMind’s AlphaGo is back, and it’s been secretly crushing the world’s best Go players over the past couple of weeks. The new version of the AI has played 51 games online and won 50 of them, including a victory against Ke Jie, currently the world’s best human Go player. Amusingly, the 51st game wasn’t even a loss; it was drawn after the Internet connection dropped out.
Developed by London-based DeepMind, AlphaGo was thrust into the limelight in March 2016 when it beat Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top Go players, in a real-world match in South Korea. Before the match, Lee was confident that he could beat the artificial intelligence. But after losing four out of five games, Lee said, “I’ve never been congratulated so much just because I won one game.”
Following its single game loss, DeepMind has been hard at work on a new and improved version of AlphaGo—and it appears the AI is back bigger, better, and more undefeated than ever. DeepMind’s co-founder Demis Hassabis announced on Twitter yesterday that “the new version of AlphaGo” had been playing “some unofficial online games” on the Tygem and FoxGo servers under the names Magister (P) and Master (P). It played 51 games in total against some of the world’s best players, including Ke Jie, Gu Li, and Lee Sedol—and didn’t lose a single one.
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