Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has an AI that’s really good at Go

Besides making sure your News Feed is optimized with, you know, important stuff, Facebook is working on a lot of other projects, some seemingly unrelated to social networking. One of them is in the field of artificial intelligence, where Facebook's scientists are trying to teach an AI to beat top human players at ancient Chinese game Go

Unlike chess, Go — a board game in which two opponents place peg in order to conquer a larger chunk of board's territory than the other player — is notoriously difficult for an AI to learn because of the vast number of combinations involved