Google’s AI beats Go champion, will now take on best player in the world

[Kontinuum]

Computers have already beaten the best humans at Checkers, Chess, and Jeopardy, but mastery of the ancient Chinese game Go has eluded computer scientists for the longest time. Deepmind, Google's artificial intelligence division, claims to have made a big breakthrough using neural networks, and it recently took on and defeated a Go world champion.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/...-in-the-world/

[Kuntantee]

A neural network, not an optimization algorithm. Not sure if this is good or bad...