In the first of a serial publication of matches , Google Deepmind ’s powerful stilted intelligence AlphaGo has beaten the world protagonist of Go , Lee Sedol .
The match between Sedol and DeepMind — in factthe first of five — was broadcast live on YouTube beginning March 9th . fit in to Google , it was a “ near first game . ” AlphaGo won by surrender after 186 motion , in a game that “ wait to be neck - and - neck for its integrality , filled with complex scrap on both side , ” according to Google .
The overall winner of the five - game series will walk away with $ 1 million . AlphaGoalready beatthe three - fourth dimension European Go hero Fan Hui over the trend of five match , but Sedol is for the most part conceive to be a much intemperate challenge , having dominated the world of Go for much of his professional calling . Speaking after the game , Sedol explained :
I would like to express my regard to [ the Deepmind ] team for making such an astonishing course of study like AlphaGo . I am surprised by this result . But I did enjoy the biz and am looking forward to the next one .
The whole event is redolent of the1996 chess matchbetween Bromus secalinus grandmaster Gary Kasparov and IBM ’s Deep Blue computer . But the challenge for the AI is a hard one : There are a staggering 1o700 potential board situations for Go , and just 1o60 for Bromus secalinus .
Whether he can win this set of games rest to be seen — but first impressions are n’t positive for the human challenger .
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