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AlphaGo AI from inside All right All right By now everyone knows that DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated 18 times world champion Lee Sedol on March 9 2016 at the ancient Chinese game Go The game of Go has as many possible moves as there are atoms in the universe DeepMind is a British Artificial Intelligence AI company found in September 2010 as DeepMind technologies It was later acquired by Google in 2014 DeepMind s goal is to solve intelligence You can check more at their website https deepmind com Coming back to AlphaGo it defeating the professional Go champions is considered HUGE for AI Like REALLY HUGE It shocked scientists who were thinking that something like this wouldn't happen until at least another decade It equally shocked experts in the Artificial Intelligence community Machine that learning on its own is a huge leap for technology The way DeepMind started off is that they showed AlphaGo a hundred thousand games downloaded from internet that strong amateurs played In the first version AlphaGo was designed to mimic the player The goal was to make AlphaGo stronger and compete with top professionals They took this version that has already learnt to mimic human play they made it play itself 30 million times It used Reinforcement Learning It means that it is not preprogrammed and learns from experience
