The match gets started at 1PM here in Korea, under an hour from now.
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AlphaGo doesn’t have emotions, of course, so it didn’t feel joy or an adrenaline rush when it ultimately eked out a victory in what DeepMind’s founder called “the most exciting and stressful” of the five games on Tuesday.
In the first match, Lee spent most of the game in the lead before being overtaken and forfeited the match once defeat was assured. “When it comes to Go skills, I don’t think that AlphaGo is superior, but when it comes to psychological factors, yes I think that AlphaGo is superior”, he said. JoongAng Ilbo newspaper said his ability to spot AlphaGo’s weaknesses is “testament to the fact that by far the most powerful machine still has a long way to go before it can truly match the ingenuity of the human mind”. It involves two players who take turns putting white and black stones on a grid of 19 lines by 19 lines.
“The play by both players seems to be mostly very precise and careful, and it is the kind of Go game that players can learn from”.
Garlock said the match “opened a new era” for the ancient game. However, his fightback highlights the way that human ingenuity can overcome brute-force machine learning.
AlphaGo is an artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by Google’s DeepMind team.
Despite the win, the machine has won eight out of the nine games that it’s played: while its winning streak is now broken, it’s an fantastic triumph for artificial intelligence: Go is an incredibly hard game to play, with an enormous number of possible moves to compute.
Mrs Park added ” It’s little bit sorry that my son lost, however I am so proud of my son for doing his best” smiling. It appears to be able to do this even more accurately than the best human players.
The DeepMind AlphaGo program has been pitted against South Korean player Lee So-dol in a test of the software’s capabilities.
The first game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also known as tic-tac-toe) in 1952.
Se-dol is a South Korean professional Go player. That’s not always the case; in mahjong, for instance, four players hide, strategically reveal, discard, and pick up tiles with an eye on which tiles people are discarding and taking from other players.
The wins by AlphaGo are a momentous milestone in the field of AI since IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess in 1997, said Howard Yu, professor of strategic management and innovation at IMD business school, about the three consecutive wins by the program.
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However, if the goal is a thinking, human-like intelligence, perhaps that’s a feature and not a bug.
