Gallery: An Improved AlphaGo Wins Its First Game Against the World's Top Go Player

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    Deepmind founder Demis Hassabis at the Future of Go summit in Wuzhen.
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    Go master Ke Jie.
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    The Google Deepmind team on stage during the post match press conference.
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    Eric Schmidt greets the press.
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