Chinese Go player Ke Jie reacts during his first match with Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.
Google’s latest effort to thaw relations with China involves an artificial intelligence pow-wow – and a game of Go.
Years after Beijing locked out virtually every Alphabet Inc service, executive chairman Eric Schmidt and a cadre of mid-level Chinese government officials kicked off a summit in the canal-laced town of Wuzhen on May 23: a rare instance of the search leader working in tandem with the country’s bureaucrats at a high-profile public event.
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