go-superstar-lee-sedol-in-march/) against Lee Se-dol, one of the very best players in the world at the ancient game of Go.
  Why is this so significant?
  Here is how the DeepMind team explained it in their paper [Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search](http://airesearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/deepmind-mastering-go.pdf):
  The game of Go has long been viewed as the most challenging of classic games for artificial intelligence due to its enormous search space and the diffi