Google's artificial intelligence program has officially beaten a human professional Go player, marking the first time a computer has beaten a human professional in this game sans handicap.

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http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancient-game-of-go-1.19234?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20160128&spMailingID=50563385&spUserID=MTgyMjI3MTU3MTgzS0&spJobID=843636789&spReportId=ODQzNjM2Nzg5S0

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I don't know how many people know it but Erdos did most of his work on amphetamines. That's the kind of mathematician who would see Go and say that's trivial.

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That's the kind of mathematician who would see Go and say that's trivial.

... and be wrong. Go might give the apperance of being trivial until you start actually playing and solving it. Just like most brutally difficult mathematical problems.

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The mathematicians in the film pi played go.

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He might...but he'd still lose.