What is AlphaGo?
[[File:Alphago_logo_Reversed.svg|AlphaGo logo|thumb|right|alt=AlphaGo logo]] AlphaGo is a [[computer program]] that plays the [[board game]] [[Go]].<ref>Wang, F. Y., Zhang, J. J., Zheng, X., Wang, X., Yuan, Y., Dai, X., ... & Yang, L. (2016). Where does AlphaGo go: From church-turing thesis to AlphaGo thesis and beyond. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 3(2), 113-120.</ref><ref>Chen, J. X. (2016). The evolution of computing: AlphaGo. Computing in Science & Engineering, 18(4), 4-7.</ref> It was made by DeepMind Technologies ([[Google]] affiliate).<ref>Chang, H. S., Fu, M. C., Hu, J., & Marcus, S. I. (2016). Google Deep Mind's AlphaGo. OR/MS Today, 43(5), 24-29.</ref> This program became famous due to the victories against professional players.<ref>Chao, X., Kou, G., Li, T., & Peng, Y. (2018). Jie Ke versus AlphaGo: A ranking approach using decision making method for large-scale data with incomplete information. European Journal of Operational Research, 265(1), 239-247.</ref><ref>Borowiec, S. (2016). AlphaGo seals 4-1 victory over Go grandmaster Lee Sedol. The Guardian.</ref> Many new technologies were used to create AlphaGo, including [[deep learning]],<ref>Granter, S. R., Beck, A. H., & Papke Jr, D. J. (2017). AlphaGo, deep learning, and the future of the human microscopist. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 141(5), 619-621.</ref> [[optimization]],<ref>Chen, Y., Huang, A., Wang, Z., Antonoglou, I., Schrittwieser, J., Silver, D., & de Freitas, N. (2018). Bayesian optimization in alphago. arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.06855.</ref> and the [[Monte Carlo algorithm]].<ref>Fu, M. C. (2016, December). AlphaGo and Monte Carlo tree search: the simulation optimization perspective. In 2016 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (pp. 659-670). [[IEEE]].</ref> ==Powered versions== After the release of AlphaGo, DeepMind Technologies has made powered versions such as the AlphaGo Zero<ref>Holcomb, S. D., Porter, W. K., Ault, S. V., Mao, G., & Wang, J. (2018, March). Overview on deepmind and its AlphaGo Zero AI. In Proc