China's 19-year-old Go player Ke Jie (L) prepares to make a move during the first match against Google's artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang province on May 23, 2017. It's man vs machine this week from May 23 to 27 as Google's artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo faces the world's top-ranked Go player in a contest expected to end in another victory for rapid advances in AI. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT
SHANGHAI: Google’s computer algorithm AlphaGo narrowly beat the world’s top-ranked player in the ancient Chinese board game of Go on May 23, reaffirming the arrival of what its developers tout as a ground-breaking new form of artificial intelligence.
AlphaGo took the first of a scheduled three games against brash 19-year-old Chinese world number one Ke Jie, who after the match annointed the program as the new “Go god”.
