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Chinese teenage prodigy in the board game Go has labelled Google’s AlphaGo “weaker” than him and confidently declared that he could take on the computer programme.
“Even if AlphaGo can defeat Lee Se-dol, it can’t beat me,” 18-year-old Ke Jie said on his microblog account, as the programme stunned the world with
two victories over the South Korean grandmaster this week.
But Mr Ke, the world number one, says he can overcome the programme, which is built by the Google-owned British company DeepMind.
“Facing AlphaGo, I do not feel the same strong instinct of victory when I play a human player, but I still believe I have the advantage against it,” he told state news agency
Xinhua. “It’s 60 per cent in my favour.”