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'MOVE 37' - Intelligence goes Artificial

In 2016, Lee  Sedol , the world champion of the Asian board game ‘Go’ , took on ‘ AlphaGo ’ - the  machine program that mimicked the neural networks of the human brain. ‘Go’ is believed to be invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is one of the oldest board games continuously played till date and with  over 46  million  worldwide players  in the present day. ‘ AlphaGo ’ was designed as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program to showcase to the world what is called ‘Deep Learning’.  AlphaGo  was fed with instructions of the game and also with an abundance of data on all kind of moves made by players in the game. The machine studies these moves and then comes up with its own creative moves. So, the program is not really following the instructions or code that you gave it, but is creating its own new codes based on what it keeps learning. What happened next is something that made the world stand up and take notice. In Game 2 - Move 37, the machine came up with a very surprising m