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19th March 2016, 15:15

Article "South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock' (https://www.nature.com/news/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock-1.19595)"
Historic win by Google DeepMind's Go-playing program has South Korean government playing catch-up on artificial intelligence.

by Mark Zastrow
March 18, 2016

The international Go community has probably not seen the last Go showdown between a human and a machine. Two days before the AlphaGo match began, deep-learning start-up firm NovuMind challenged the Chinese professional Go player Ke Jie to a computer match. Based in California's Silicon Valley, NovuMind was founded in 2015 by Ren Wu, a former deep-learning researcher at Baidu, the Chinese web-services giant.

What Google’s winning Go algorithm will do next
The terms of the match have yet to be formalized, says Wu, but he is confident that they will be signed soon. The 18-year-old Ke Jie defeated Lee Sedol in an international tournament held in China in January, and is currently the world’s top-ranked player at GoRatings.org — just ahead of AlphaGo.