My colleagues David Silver, Aja Huang, and others have just published their excellent work on Go in Nature.  The system is called AlphaGo, and it combines Monte-Carlo tree search with deep neural networks, trained by supervised learning and by reinforcement learning from self-play.  The landmark achievement was beating the human European champion 5-0 in tournament games.  This is the first time that a computer beat a human professional player.

In March, AlphaGo will take on Lee Sedol, one of the best Go players in the world.  The match will be in Seoul from March 9th until March 15th.

Exciting times.

Update:

AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol by winning 4 of the 5 games.