In March 2016, the world witnessed a unique moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) when AlphaGo, an AI developed by DeepMind, played against Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go ...

Mr. Lee, right, playing against Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, in Seoul, in 2016. AlphaGo’s moves were relayed to a company representative who moved the game pieces.

No, the honor of that title goes to 18-year-year-old Chinese wunderkind Ke Jie. Prior to AlphaGo’s victory over Lee Sedol, Ke stated that he had no interest in going toe-to-toe with the digital ...

Go legend Lee Se-dol, who received worldwide attention after winning the match against AlphaGo, said, "It's the first time I've felt a desire to win outside of Baduk. It felt difficult and hard to ...