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Was reading about AlphaGo's match against Fan Hui (the European champion). This was a much less powerful version than the one that beat Lee Sedol and apparently there was debate among professional go players in China about whether (based on those games) it was as good as a professional player. Really shows the gap between the Big Three go-playing countries and the west that a computer who beat the champion of an entire continent 5-0 was arguably not good enough to even be considered a professional player in Asia.

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Go master quits because AI 'cannot be defeated'

Lee Se-dol retires from the game of Go after conceding that computers "cannot be defeated".

Lee Se-dol is the only human to ever beat the AlphaGo software developed by Google's sister company Deepmind.

In 2016, he took part in a five-match showdown against AlphaGo, losing four times but beating the computer once.

The South Korean said he had decided to retire after realising: "I'm not at the top even if I become the number one."

"There is an entity that cannot be defeated," the 18-time world Go champion told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Lee Se-dol is considered to be one of the greatest Go players of the modern era.

The 36-year-old former world champion started playing at the age of five, and turned pro just seven years later.

His defeat by the AlphaGo software was seen as a landmark moment for artificial intelligence.

AlphaGo was developed by Deepmind, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet.

"On behalf of the whole AlphaGo team at DeepMind, I'd like to congratulate Lee Se-dol for his legendary decade at the top of the game, and wish him the very best for the future," said Demis Hassabis, chief executive and co-founder of Deepmind.

"During the AlphaGo matches, he demonstrated true warrior spirit and kept us on the edges of our seats to the very end."

Go originated in China 3,000 years ago, and has been played for centuries.

Challenging

Two players take turns putting black or white stones on a 19-by-19 grid. Players win by taking control of the most territory on the board.

The board game is considered to be a much more complex challenge for a computer than chess.

A player typically has a choice of 200 moves, compared with about 20 in chess - and there are more possible positions in Go than atoms in the universe, according to researchers.

It can be very difficult to determine who is winning, and many of the top human players rely on instinct.

Deepmind hopes that the development of AlphaGo will lead to "similar techniques" that can be "applied to other structured problems, such as protein folding, reducing energy consumption or searching for revolutionary new materials".

Despite his retirement, Lee Se-dol is due to play against another AI system in December.

He will play against HanDol, a program developed by South Korea's NHN Entertainment Corp, which has already defeated the country's top five Go players.

Lee will be given an advantage of two stones in the first game, but suspects he will lose.

"Even with a two-stone advantage, I feel like I will lose the first game to HanDol. These days, I don't follow Go news. I wanted to play comfortably against HanDol as I have already retired, though I will do my best," he said.

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A piece for @kiblind_magazine, thanks a lot for the invitation ✨🤖 I wanted to use this issue’s "Robot" theme to talk about a thought I had regarding artificial intelligence. Recently, I watched a documentary on the Alpha Go AI. Alpha Go is a neural network programmed by Google to teach itself the ancient Japanese board game "Go". Go has always been regarded to be unmasterable for AI because of it's sheer endless complexity. To test their algorithm Google set up a show match between the grand master of go, Lee Sedol and Alpha Go. Of course the go-world excitedly watched the master of this game and the neural network step into the arena to test their skills. During game two of the series, there is a crucial moment, turn 37 by Alpha Go. The AI made a move, that was initially regarded as a clear mistake by the commentators and all experts alike, but later turned out to be a brilliant advance that ultimately led to the success of Alpha Go over Lee Sedol. Turn 37 was a revolutionary move, something unseen before in the ancient tradition of the game. The grand master himself later described it as sheer brilliance, a stroke of genius, a revelation, a true manifestation of beauty. This particular moment and it's perception by Lee Sedol is what fascinated me. The move itself is not inherently beautiful. For the algorithm, it was just the best move to make, a succession of mathematical calculations. The capability to see the beauty in this move though, the possibility to find something akin to the meaning of life in a go move, that is what I think is inherently beautiful. I think beauty is in the human capability to perceive beauty. Turn no. 37 to me represents a crucial challenge as well as chance we are faced in confrontation with artificial intelligence. These algorithms question our intelligence, our uniqueness, our value and core of our humanity. But through this challenge we might be able to understand even more so, what being a human might truly mean. ⚪️⚫️ . #kiblind #kiblindmagazine #robotillustration #leesedol #alphago #digitalillustration #illustrationartists #illustrative #illustrationow #illustree #illo #editorialillustration #gogame (hier: Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvW09sZBG0N/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e61hgwuuuiu9