AlphaGo is an AI project run by Google, and is designed to use deep learning to play the classic board game, Go. In 2015, AlphaGo became the first computer program to beat a professional Go player. This has sparked many research projects on the ALphaGo AI.
The TCU Computer Science Department has launched an AlphaGo research project. Currently, it can only be used by those directly involved with the project, and only at certain computers on campus. In addition, the interface for conducting research is difficult to use. Our goal is to make this project more widely accessible to students and faculty alike, whether they wish to help in research, or simply want to learn to play Go. We will achieve this by developing a web application for the project that allows users to play against various Go AI agents, as well as allowing researchers to train new AI.
