The ancient board game Go long remained a human conquest — requiring too much complex strategy and intuition to be bested by a computer. But in a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a Google computer program called AlphaGo beat the world champion, South Korea’s Lee Se-dol, on Tuesday night in the first of five matches.
Image: The world champion of Go, Lee Se-dol, lost the first of five matches to a computer on Tuesday night. Ahn Young-Joon/Associated Press
