Google's AlphaGo AI defeats Chinese chess master in second match

Ke Jie, a Chinese Go chess prodigy and the world's No.1 Go player, lost to Google's AlphaGo AI mid-game during their second match on Thursday.

Chinese Go player Ke Jie, left, competes against Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo, as Google DeepMind's lead programmer Aja Huang sits in the second game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match during the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen town, Jiaxing city, east China's Zhejiang province, 25 May 2017. [Photo: IC]

The 19-year-old master began a best-of-three series against Google's artificial-intelligence-based Go system on Tuesday morning, during a week-long competition in the historic town of Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province.

The dual was the latest contest between elite human Go players and AlphaGo, which has been developed by Google's DeepMind. The program defeated South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol 4-1 in March 2016.

Chinese Go player Ke Jie competes against Google´s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo, in the second game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match during the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen town, Jiaxing city, east China´s Zhejiang province, 25 May 2017. [Photo: IC]

Ke Jie dropped the first round of the best-of-three match on May 23, 2017.

The final game will take place on May 27.