Pros saw the writing on the wall, but remember that no bot was even particularly close to pro strength until 2016. Go was dogmatically described as still being decades away from bots being able to play competitively. For some professionals like Lee Sedol, the burning desire was to play the best games and best moves possible. To such an abstract game about intuition, seeing it finally be dominated by machines could understandably be crushing.
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