TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook

Introduction

In March 2016, AlphaGo--the program made by Google's DeepMind--defeated the world's best Go player, 18-time world champion Lee Sedol, by 4 to 1. The match was historic because Go is a notoriously difficult game for computers to play, with:

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possible legal board positions. Playing and winning Go cannot be done by simple brute force. It requires skill, creativity, and, as professional Go players say, intuition. 

This remarkable feat was accomplished by AlphaGo with the help of RL algorithm-based deep neural ...