Google AlphaGo computer beats professional at 'world's most complex board game' Go

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The machine’s victory is being likened to the defeat of reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 by IBM’s Deep Blue computer, which became a milestone in the advance of artificial intelligence over the human mind. 1997 : IBM’s Deep Blue computer beats reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time. : IBM’s Deep Blue computer beats reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time. Jon Diamond, president of the British Go Association, said: “Before this match the best computer programs were not as good as the top amateur players and I was still expecting that it would be at least 5 or 10 years before a program would be able to beat the top human players; now it looks like this may be imminent.