January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 27m
English
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When DeepMind’s Go bot AlphaGo played move 37 of game 2 against Lee Sedol in 2016, it took the Go world by storm. Commentator Michael Redmond, a professional player with nearly a thousand top-level games under his belt, did a double-take on air; he even briefly removed the stone from the demo board while looking around as if to confirm that AlphaGo made the right move. (“I still don’t really understand the mechanics of it,” Redmond told the American ...