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AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol

146 points| wyclif | 10 years ago |googleasiapacific.blogspot.com | reply

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[+] jamornh|10 years ago|reply
Wow, Lee Sedol just resigned. First game goes to AlphaGo. I wasn't sure who would win the 5 matches, but I never expected AlphaGo to win the first game!
[+] CamperBob2|10 years ago|reply
Lee was rattled. This match might end up 5-0.
[+] lostdog|10 years ago|reply
I wish they would highlight the most recent placements, so it's easier to watch intermittently.
[+] CamperBob2|10 years ago|reply
I wish the commentators would pay more attention to the live game board, and less to their own copy of it.
[+] jsnk|10 years ago|reply
Amazing.. I think AlphaGo is going to win.
[+] taneq|10 years ago|reply
Lee just resigned. O.o
[+] nickpsecurity|10 years ago|reply
My money is on the human. This time.
[+] CamperBob2|10 years ago|reply
Hopefully there's still time to edit your comment before the robots notice...
[+] pmontra|10 years ago|reply
Halfway through the game and it's difficult to say who's winning. AlphaGo has definitely improved during the winter.
[+] lololomg|10 years ago|reply
Lee seems to be ahead so far in game 1
[+] jorgecurio|10 years ago|reply
I am so stoked for this match, Lee Sedol is a child prodigy and a legend....I literally felt as excited as I was going in McGregor vs Diaz before the fight.

I used to play Go when I was a kid on televised matches in Korea during the 90s and have woken up early on saturdays watching every game live on tv. Then I'd go to these Go school after class and there'd be like 30 students studying and fighting.

Go is a hugely appealing game to intuitive people rather than logical people who prefer Chess. Go is an infinitely more complex and at these Pro levels a demigod like Lee Sedol have the same fanatic followings.

[+] jorgecurio|10 years ago|reply
so I watched this last night and it was an earth shattering moment...like no fucking way sedol gonna get bamboozled by a computer right?

AlphaGo winning was the cherry on top but what was really even more intense was the actual battle in itself. It was like Lee Sedol was playing himself but a version of him that would get better and better each time Sedol attacked. AlphaGo surprisingly chose the right strategy which was to be aggressive right back.

Overall, I could identify with the commentator's excitement and sort of apprehension that the first battle against the Machines have begun and lost the first round.

Lee Sedol must have been taken back at how good AlphaGo is I think he seriously underestimated it because he had a lot of hubris and over confidence going in like 'yeah imma smack the shit out of alphago' and then it after the match is like 'damn gg'.

The biggest ground breaking realization is that deep learning has become so good that it is possible to outperform a human even in previously thought impossible problems....who would've thought a bunch of logic gates fast forward 40 years we have machines that beat us in our own games? 80 years from now what will things look like?

It's a real reckoning and I really feel the drive to learn deep learning just don't know where to start