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AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

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Re: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

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Impressive work by Google research team. I'm both impressed and scared. This is our Deep Blue moment folks. a history is made.

This seems to be more impressive than the Deep Blue moment. In 1996, Deep Blue didn't make it on the first try. Even in 1997, it has been a draw until the 6th game. Although AlphaGo has 2 games to go, the first three seem to be a clear victory.

Re: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

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Impressive work by Google research team. I'm both impressed and scared. This is our Deep Blue moment folks. a history is made.

Give credit where credit is due. This is DeepMind's research, and Google acquired them in 2014. Of course, Google gave them a lot of resources to train AlphaGo. But let's not bury the subsidiary, or I guess they would both be subs to Alphabet now making the two even less related.

Re: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

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Perhaps the last big question was whether AlphaGo could play ko positions. AlphaGo played quite well in that ko fight and furthermore, even played away from the ko fight allowing Lee Sedol to play twice in the area. I definitely did not expect that. Major credit to Lee Sedol for toughing that out and playing as long as he did. It was dramatic to watch as he played a bunch of his moves with only 1 or 2 seconds left on…

> as he played a bunch of his moves with only 1 or 2 seconds left on the clock. That's on purpose to make full use of time and think about the next move

As a spectator, I was on the edge of my seat :)

As a 3d amateur, I'm really curious about when he resigned. It really seemed like he was playing the position out to go for the win (or perhaps to see how AlphaGo would fare in ko). It didn't look like he was searching for a place to resign.

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