AlphaGo is a software for the game of Go developed by Google DeepMind. It was the first software able to defeat a human champion in the game without a handicap and on a standard-sized goban (19 × 19).
DeepMind is a British company of artificial intelligence controlled by Alphabet. It was founded in 2011 as DeepMind Technologies and was acquired by Google in 2014.
According to David Silver, a researcher at DeepMind, the AlphaGo project was launched in 2014 to study how deep neural networks could be applied to the game of Go.
AlphaGo represented a significant advancement over pre-existing go-to game programs. Over 500 games played against other software, including Crazy Stone and Zen—AlphaGo (running on a single computer) has won all but one game—and running a series of similar matches, but turning on an AlphaGo cluster has won all 500 games...
