中国AI团队将挑战AlphaGo

一个中国团队计划向击败了世界一流围棋选手李世石的谷歌人工智能程序AlphaGo发起挑战。《上海证券报》报道了这一消息。

该报道称，有参会者在中国围棋协会和中国人工智能学会共同在北京举办的“Alpha Go人机大战的解读与中国人工智能论坛”上表示，中国计算机围棋科学家团队将在今年底向谷歌Alpha Go发起挑战。报道并未说明这次挑战的性质。

上海证券报在其网站上对此这次活动“Alpha Go人机大战的解读与中国人工智能论坛”进行了报道。

AlphaGo由谷歌子公司DeepMind开发，本月初在首尔击败李世石，让观众大为震惊。

去年AlphaGo曾击败欧洲围棋冠军樊麾，创造了人工智能击败围棋职业选手的历史。但外界均认为33岁的李世石要比樊麾强得多。

围棋历史悠久，对弈双方分执黑子和白字，以尽量占据棋盘面积为目的，在中日韩最为普及。

战胜樊麾前，专家一直都认为人工智能至少在10年内无法战胜职业棋手。

《中国日报》报道，谷歌首席执行官桑达尔•皮查伊还在上周四参观了聂卫平围棋道场。

作为Alphabet的子公司，谷歌发言人称皮查伊此行的目的是加深对围棋和中国的了解。

中国网络搜索引擎百度等公司也在开发人工智能。

2014年，百度从谷歌挖来了“谷歌大脑”之父吴恩达。（财富中文网）

译者：Charlie

校对：詹妮

A team from China plans to challenge Google’s AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence (AI) program that beat a world-class player in the ancient board game Go, the state-owned Shanghai Securities News reported on Thursday.

Scientists from the China Computer Go team will issue a challenge to AlphaGo by the end of 2016, said attendees at an event in Beijing organized by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, according to the report. It did not elaborate on the nature of the challenge.

The event was ‘The Forum for Understanding the AlphaGo War between Man and Machine and Chinese Artificial Intelligence’, Shanghai Securities News reported on its website.

AlphaGo, developed by Google GOOGL -0.65% subsidiary DeepMind, shocked audiences when it beat South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol in Seoul earlier this month.

The program made history last year by becoming the first machine to beat a human pro player, but 33-year-old Lee, one of the world’s top players, was seen as a much more formidable opponent.

Go, most popular in countries such as China, South Korea and Japan, involves two contestants moving black and white stones across a square grid, aiming to seize the most territory.

Until AlphaGo’s victory last year, experts had not expected an artificial intelligence program to beat a human professional for at least a decade.

Also on Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai visited one of China’s top Go training schools, according to the China Daily.

A spokesman at Google, a unit of Alphabet, said Pichai was in China to develop his understanding of Go and of the country.

Chinese companies like Baidu BIDU 0.52% , the country’s nearest equivalent of Google, are also working on developing AI.

Baidu in 2014 hired former Google engineer Andrew Ng, who had helmed the U.S. search giant’s Google Brain AI efforts.