[Courtesy of Google's AI project DeepMind]
Google will provide YouTube livestreams of a five-game match between a computer program and Lee Sedol, the world champion of the ancient Chinese board game "Go", from March 9.
"We are very excited to be coming to South Korea," Demis Hassabis, head of the Google DeepMind lab behind its AlphaGo AI system, said in a tweet.
Google said the one-million-dollar match will be livestreamed on YouTube, starting on March 9.
The match was set up after Google's new computer program beat European go champion Fan Huia in all five games of a match in October, marking a significant advance for development of artificial intelligence.
The computer's unexpected victory was 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.
Computers previously have surpassed humans for other games, including chess, checkers and backgammon. But Go has been seen as the most complex board game with an infinitely greater number of potential moves.
Google is competing with Facebook and other rivals to develop special artificial intelligence.
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