DeepMind’s AlphaGo supercomputer defeated three-time European Go Champion Fan Hui in a closed-door five-game match, achieving a clean 5-0 victory. This historic milestone marked the first time an artificial intelligence defeated a professional human player at the ancient game of Go, shattering the long-held expert consensus that computers were at least a decade away from mastering the game’s near-infinite strategic combinations.
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