Inside AlphaGo: Revolutionizing Go with AI

In October 2015, in a quiet room in London, a professional Go player sat across

from an opponent that didn’t eat, didn’t sleep, and didn’t even breathe.

It lived in racks of computers humming in the background. On the board: 19 by 19 lines,

black and white stones, a game so subtle and so vast that for decades experts

said, “No computer will touch top human level for at least another ten years.”

And yet, over five official games, this machine didn’t just hold its own.

It won. Five–zero. That machine was AlphaGo. Today,

we’re going to unpack the science behind the breakthrough paper “Mastering the Game of Go with