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AlphaGo confirmed as Master/Magister

DeepMind on Thursday afternoon confirmed that a "new prototype version" of AlphaGo has been the mystery player playing as Master and Magister on the Tygem and FoxGo servers, defeating more than 50 of the top go players in the world. "We've been hard at work improving AlphaGo," DeepMind's Demis Hassabis tweeted, "and over the last few days we've played some unofficial online games at fast time controls with our new prototype version, to check that it's working as well as we hoped." Hassabis went on to say that "We're excited by the results and also by what we and the Go community can learn from some of the innovative and successful moves played by the new version of AlphaGo."