impossible → routine

Professional-level Go

Playing Go at the level of professional players.

Impossible

2016-01-27

AlphaGo beats the European champion 5–0, a feat its Nature paper says was previously thought to be at least a decade away.

5–0; first program to beat a professional at full-size Go

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2 years, 3 months

Routine

2018-05-02

Facebook releases ELF OpenGo's trained model and code under a BSD license, after a 14–0 record against four top-30 professionals playing on a single GPU.

14–0 versus top-30 professionals; one GPU

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