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When Google challenged a Chinese board game champion to play its artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo, the invitation was read as an attempt by the American tech giant to build bridges in a lucrative market where it was struggling to gain traction. But the 2017 face-off between the US and China , over one of the world's most complex board games Go (with AlphaGo making its moves via a human handler), resulted in a very different outcome. AlphaGo triumphed over 19-year-old world champion Go player, Ke Jie - not once, but three times. After the match, Ke Jie described AlphaGo as...
