It’s official. Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo AI has taken the series against Lee Sedol, ranked second in the world, in the game of Go — winning four games to one. That’s a pretty clear and decisive victory.
Yep, the machine wins here.
The AI only appeared to only truly falter a few times, once in game four when Sedol “pressured AlphaGo into a mistake that it couldn’t recover from” (Source: @demishassabis, DeepMind CEO). It made a big mistake in game five but apparently managed to recover incredibly well! That’s a pretty impressive record right there.
If you’re keen to see the final moments, the game was streaming live on YouTube right here, so the replay should appear there soon too.
We’ve come a long way since 2014:
Go, it appears, is no longer quite the mystery!
You know what you all need to do. Get practicing. We cannot let the machines win 😉
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