AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
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Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#2A historic moment here, folks.
Incredible, and in my opinion a little terrifying.
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#3What an amazing game to watch. Congratulations to the AlphaGo team, and good luck to both players in the next four games!
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#4Just for context, this is the first of a five-game match. Next one tomorrow at the same time! (6am CEST, 8pm PT).
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#5That sequence on the right side was excellent, I am so impressed with the level of play.
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#6A historic moment here, folks. Incredible, and in my opinion a little terrifying.
Not that terrifying? It's a very special purpose-built tool.
We'll still always have Calvinball! https://xkcd.com/1002/
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#7I was at the 2003 match of Garry Kasparov vs Deep Junior -- the strongest chess player of all time vs what was at that point the strongest chess playing computer in history. Kasparov drew that match, but it was clear it was the last stand of homo sapiens in the man vs machine chess battle. Back then, people took solace in the game of Go. Many boldly and confidently predicted we wouldn't see a computer beat the Go world champion in our lifetimes.
Tonight, that happened. Google's DeepMind AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion Lee Sedol. An amazing testament to humanity's ability to continuously innovate at a continuously surprising pace. It's important to remember, this isn't really man vs machine, as we humans programmed the algorithms and built the computers they run on. It's really all just circuitous man vs man.
Excited for the next "impossible" things we'll see in our lifetimes.
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#8This is my generation's Gary Kasparov vs. Deep Blue. In many ways, it is more significant.
Several top commentators were saying how AlphaGo has improved noticeably since October. AlphaGo's victory tonight marks the moment that go is no longer a human dominated contest.
It was a very exciting game, incredible level of play. I really enjoyed watching it live with the expert commentary. I recommend the AGA youtube channel for those who know how to play. They had a 9p commenting at a higher level than the deepmind channel (which seemed geared towards those who aren't as familiar).
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#9The YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8
Re: AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
#10A historic moment here, folks. Incredible, and in my opinion a little terrifying.
Not that terrifying? It's a very special purpose-built tool. We'll still always have Calvinball! https://xkcd.com/1002/
The way AlphaGo plays is more general purpose than other game playing systems. It doesn't have any heuristics, rules, or game rule books programmed into it, it learned to play Go like you would. The same technique could be applied to other areas, the same way DeepMind originally got super-human level Atari 2600 game performance purely by having it watch pixels.