In March 2016, in Seoul, DeepMind's program AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, one of the world's best Go players, by four games to one. Go, with more possible positions than atoms in the universe, was thought to be a decade away from being conquered by a computer. AlphaGo used deep neural networks trained on human games and by playing against itself, combined with tree search. In the second game, its 'move 37' astonished experts for its creativity. Lee Sedol won the fourth game with a brilliant move of his own. The match became a landmark in modern artificial intelligence.
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- from 24 February 2016 to 14 April 2016Premiere of Descendants of the Sun
- from 9 March 2016 to 27 March 2016Palmyra offensive
- from 9 March 2016 to 15 March 2016AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol
- 14 March 2016Launch of ExoMars
- 22 March 20162016 Brussels bombings
- 24 March 2016Death of Johan Cruyff
- 27 March 20162016 Lahore suicide bombing
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