Google cosying up to China with AI secrets and a game of Go
There is speculation that it now wants to enter China, starting with partnerships with local Android app stores
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GOOGLE's latest effort to thaw relations with China involves an artificial intelligence (AI) powwow - and a game of Go.
Years after Beijing locked out virtually every Alphabet Inc service, executive chairman Eric Schmidt and a cadre of mid-level Chinese government officials kicked off a summit in the canal-laced town of Wuzhen on Tuesday: a rare instance of the search leader working in tandem with the country's bureaucrats at a high-profile public event. Google specialists and prominent local academics will exchange notes and host discussions but the centrepiece will be the 2,500-year-old strategy board game between DeepMind's so-far undefeated AlphaGo system and local champion Ke Jie.
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