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 Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo beat top-class South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol in the ancient board game Go Neil Connor By Neil Connor, Beijing 11:34AM GMT 11 Mar 2016 Follow A Chinese teenage prodigy in the board game Go has labelled Google’s AlphaGo “weaker” than him and confidently declared that he could take on the computer programme.
 “Even if AlphaGo can defeat Lee Se-dol, it can’t beat me,” 18-year-old Ke Jie said on his microblog account, as the programme stunned the world with two victories over the South Korean grandmaster this week.
 AlphaGo went 2-0 ahead on Thursday in its matches with Mr Lee, who has won 18 world titles.
 Go is one of the final games in which humans have maintained their superiority over machines.
 But Mr Ke, the world number one, says he can overcome the programme, which is built by the Google-owned British company DeepMind.
 “Facing AlphaGo, I do not feel the same strong instinct of victory when I play a human player, but I still believe I have the advantage against it,” he told state news agency Xinhua.
 “It’s 60 per cent in my favour.
” Mr Ke has beaten 33-year-old Mr Lee eight times over ten matches between the pair, with two of his victories over the world number four coming earlier this year.
 Go Fans watch a TV screen showing the live broadcast of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match at Yongsan Electronic Technology Land in Seoul, South Korea Go Fans watch a TV screen showing the live broadcast of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match at Yongsan Electronic Technology Land in Seoul, South Korea, as Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo beat top-class South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol in the ancient board game Go.
 Photo: Alamy Xinhua said Google Deepmind’s CEO Demis Hassabis is willing for Mr Ke to lined up as AlphaGo’s next opponent.
 But another Chinese media outlet said Mr Ke had earlier said he was not interested in facing off against the programme in the complex strategy game because he did not want it to copy his own world-beating tactics.
 “I don’t want to compete with AlphaGo because judging from its matches with Lee, AlphaGo is weaker than me,” he told Shanghai-based thepaper.
cn.
 “I don’t want AlphaGo to copy my style.
” AlphaGo’s first victory over Mr Lee on Wednesday was seen as a watershed moment for artificial intelligence, and the program went 2-0 ahead in the five game series a day later.
 The third match takes place in Seoul on Saturday.
 AlphaGo had beaten European champion Fan Hui last October.
 Mastering Go is seen as a major challenge for computers, which cannot simply assess all possible moves but must rely on something akin to intuition.
 Additional reporting by Ailin Tang.
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