S Korea set for first game board battle between human and machine

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A match like no other is about to get underway in South Korea.

The world’s best professional player of the Chinese board game, Go – will square off with an Artificial Intelligence system created by Google.

There’s plenty of money at stake, but as Harry Fawcett reports, the outcome could also say a lot about the future of AI.

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