AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game
This was probably the closest game in the series. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzpW10DPHeQA 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.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.Previous Discussions:Game 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11276798Game 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11271816Game 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257928Game 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250871