AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game
This was probably the closest game in the series. Livestream: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzpW10DPHeQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzpW10DPHeQ</a><p>A few months back, the expert consensus was that we were many years away from an AI playing Go at the 9-dan level. Now it seems that we've already surpassed that point. What this underscores, if anything, is the accelerating pace of technological growth, for better or for worse.<p>In game four, we saw Lee Sedol make a brilliant play, and AlphaGo make a critical mistake (typical of monte carlo-trained algorithms) following it. There's no doubt that with further refinement, we'll soon see AI play Go at a level well beyond human: games one through three already featured extraordinarily strong (and innovative) play on part of AlphaGo.<p>Previous Discussions:<p>Game 4: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11276798" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11276798</a><p>Game 3: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11271816" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11271816</a><p>Game 2: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257928" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257928</a><p>Game 1: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250871" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250871</a>