Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, left, shakes hands with Go champion Lee Sedol after DeepMind's AlphaGo player beat Sedol 4-1 in Korea in March 2016.
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Google confirms its AlphaGo AI beat top players in online games

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Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) research group is back again at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Rather than playing top-ranking Go players in person (with the help of a human to make its moves), now AlphaGo has gone up against players and beat them online — and covertly at that.

Earlier today Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis posted a message to Twitter confirming that an updated version of AlphaGo had in fact played people online.

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