A computer beat China’s top player of go, one of the last games machines have yet to master, for a second time Thursday in a competition authorities limited the Chinese public’s ability to see. Ke Jie lost despite playing what Google’s AlphaGo indicated was the best game any opponent has played against it, said Demis Hassabis, founder of the company that developed the program. AlphaGo defeated Ke, a 19-year-old prodigy, in their first game Tuesday during a forum organized by Google on artificial intelligence in Wuzhen, a town west of Shanghai. They play a final game Saturday. AlphaGo previously defeated European and South Korean champions, surprising players who had expected it to be at least a decade before computers could master the game.
Both the Spanglish “Despacito,” by Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, and “Mi Gente,” by Colombian-born J Balvin and French artist Willy Williams in full-on español, brought into clear view this year Latino artists' rising influence in the American and music scene, NBC News reported.
This year marks only the third time that Spanish-language songs have hit #1 on Billboard’s Top 100 Chart in American history, after 1987’s “La Bamba” by Los Lobos and “La Macarena” by Los Del Rio in 1996.
“We never in our wildest dreams saw this coming,” said Fonsi about “Despacito.” “We knew we had a big song in the Latin market … I didn’t know it was going to be #1 in Russia [and] huge in Asian countries!”
But for most Latino artists, it's a tough road to make it to the top of the U.S. charts.
