Professionals could defeat these programs even given handicaps of 10+ stones in favor of the AI.
The best efforts of the 1980s and 1990s produced only AIs that could be defeated by beginners, and AIs of the early 2000s were intermediate level at best.
Before 2015, the programs of the era were weak. The field is sharply divided into two eras. Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go.
