Almost 20 years after IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess, Google's AlphaGo has proven superior at the game of Go. If you are unfamiliar with the relative complexity of the two games, know that each achievement employed cutting edge artificial intelligence research. Now consider how far computers have come in two decades in general; for reference, Google was still over a year away from being founded when the chess match took place. The primary challenge with Go is the astronomical number of possibilities; … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Go with God