Future of Go Summit

The Future of Go Summit (Chinese: 中国乌镇围棋峰会) was a Go games summit held in May 2017 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China, by the Chinese Go Association, the Zhejiang Provincial Sort Bureau, and Google. It featured five Go games involving AlphaGo and top Chinese Go players, as well as a forum on the future of artificial intelligence.

This summit was Google’s biggest public event in partnership with the Chinese government since Google China's search engine was moved out of mainland China to Hong Kong due to the government censorship in 2010. It was seen as a charm offensive launched by Google toward Chinese officials, being part of effort to reopen China's market.

The version of AlphaGo used in this Summit was AlphaGo Master, using four TPUs on a single machine with an Elo rating of 4,858. DeepMind claimed that this version was 3 stones stronger in games of self-play than the version used in AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol.

After winning its three-game match against Chinese grandmaster Ke Jie, the world's top Go player, AlphaGo was awarded professional 9-duan by Chinese Weiqi Association. DeepMind announced that AlphaGo would retire, and DeepMind would disband the team that worked on Go and spend their time exploring new AI in other areas instead of Go. After the Summit, DeepMind released 50 games AlphaGo played against itself.