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Learning to play Go is only the start

South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol is seen on a TV screen during the Google DeepMind Challenge Match against Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo — AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

In 2016 Lee Sedol, one of the world’s best players of Go, lost a match in Seoul to a computer program called AlphaGo by four games to one. It was a big event, both in the history of Go and in the history of artificial intelligence (AI). Go occupies roughly the same place in the culture of China, Korea and…