Garry Kasparov one of the biggest players of chess was challenged by IBM to play with their computer named Deep Blue in 1966. However Garry Kasparov won the first game but the rematch was won by Deep blue. Twenty years ago computers could beat humans at chess but were found quite unprofessional at the ancient game of go. But the computers of this time can beat anyone in the game.
AlphaGo was the program used, developed by Deep mind, an Artificial Intelligence, London based company which was bought by google for $400m in 2014. Fan Hui a European Champion was took by this program and he was beaten by 5-0, as a report says in Nature. The ‘Grand Challenge’ In Al research was to beat a champion at Go. White or black stones are used by the Go players on 19*19 grid to occupy most of the territory. The game is impossible to play with only extreme calculations because of the size of the board and the number of possible moves in the game. According to Demis Hassabis, founder Deep Mind, go turn offers 200 moves as compared to the chess which has only 20 moves to offer at one turn.
A computer-like machine Deep Blue’s program was developed by humans. AI was used by AlphaGo to teach itself the game and then to make the decisions about the game. Tis technique is called machine learning from which now computers are able to learn things by themselves like language translation, recognizing speeches and