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CANNES, France—Google's latest step toward developing artificial intelligence, the computer program AlphaGo, picked up the Innovation Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions festival here tonight, eclipsing eight other contenders that were pretty remarkable in their own right.
Developed by Google DeepMind in London, AlphaGo is a program that was taught to play the board game Go. Go is an exceedingly complex game with trillions of possible board positions that make it all but impossible, at least at the present time, for a computer to master it by logic alone.
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