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The Potential Of Artificial Intelligence In The Future Of Sports

Related Topics: AlphaGo, DeepMind

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA. MARCH 9, 2016. Commentators during the first game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match between South Korean Go player Lee Sedol and Google's AlphaGo programme. AlphaGo defeated Go world champion Sedol in the first of five games of the Go contest. Stanislav Varivoda/TASS (Photo by Stanislav VarivodaTASS via Getty Images)

Another human has lost to the descendants of Deep Blue. First, world champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer in chess in 1997. Then Jeopardy’s all-time consecutive show winner Ken Jennings succumbed to IBM’s Watson computer system in 2010. Recently, Go’s “best player” Ke Jie was soundly defeated by a computer system called AlphaGo powered by DeepMind.