Looking ahead

Events and stories coming up in the next few days

All systems go in Ordos as meeting focuses on AI game

The first World AI Go Open will kick off in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Wednesday, attracting dozens of research teams from home and abroad. The event is organized by the International Go Federation and the Chinese Go Association. In May, AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program developed by Google's DeepMind team, beat China's top Go player Ke Jie in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.