On April 27, Ke Jie, the world’s second-ranked Go player competed against another AI Go program after having defeated by AlphaGo at 0-3 last year. (Go is an extremely intensive chess game, especially at higher level gameplays.)
2017 is coming to an end and it’s time to review the year. On December 18, the world’s largest Chinese search engine Baidu released a list of the Top Trending Searches of 2017, which is the best way to understand Chinese netizens’ “collective memory” and “online life” during 2017.
The Palace Museum and Tencent held a “Culture and Technology” International Forum at the Imperial Palace on November 28. Tencent COO Mark Ren spoke at the opening ceremony, saying that Tencent would focus on bridging science and culture to empower its partners and contribute to the rejuvenation of Chinese civilization.
