Chapter 10. Building an AlphaZero-like Mobile Game App

Although the ever-increasing popularity of modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) was essentially caused by the breakthrough of deep learning in 2012, the historic events of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol, the 18-time world champion of GO, 4-1 in March 2016 and then beating Ke Jie, the current #1-ranked GO player, 3-0 in May 2017, contributed in large part to making AI a household acronym. Due to the complexity of the GO game, it was wildly considered an impossible mission, or impossible for at least one more decade, that a computer program would beat top GO players. 

After the match between AlphaGo and Ke Jie in May 2017, Google retired AlphaGo; DeepMind, the startup Google acquired for its pioneering deep reinforcement learning technologies and the developer of AlphaGo, decided to focus their AI research on other areas. Then, interestingly, in October 2017, DeepMind published another paper on the game, GO: Mastering the Game...