A Google-developed computer programme
won its best-of-five match-up with a South Korean Go grandmaster on
Saturday, taking an unassailable 3-0 lead to score a major victory for a
new style of "intuitive" artificial intelligence (AI).
The programme, AlphaGo, took a little over four hours to secure its third consecutive win over Lee Se-Dol - one of the ancient game's greatest modern players with 18 international titles to his name.
Lee, who has topped the world ranking for much of the past decade and
had predicted an easy victory when accepting the AlphaGo challenge, now
finds himself fighting to avoid a whitewash in the two remaining dead
rubbers on Sunday and Tuesday.
"I
don't know what to say, but I think I have to express my apologies
first," a crestfallen Lee told a post-game press conference.
"I apologise for being unable to satisfy a lot of people's expectations. I kind of felt powerless," Lee said, acknowledging that he had "misjudged" the computer programme's abilities.
"Yes, I do have extensive experience in playing the game of Go, but there was never a case where I was under this much pressure.... and I was incapable of overcoming it," he added.
For AlphaGo's creators, Google DeepMind, victory went way beyond the $1 million dollar prize money, to prove that AI has far more to offer than superhuman number-crunching.
"To be honest, we are a bit stunned and speechless," said a smiling DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who stressed that Lee's defeat in Seoul should not be seen as a loss for humanity.
"Because the methods we have used to build AlphaGo are general purpose, our hope is that in the long-run we will be able to use these techniques for many other problems," Hassabis said.
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"I apologise for being unable to satisfy a lot of people's expectations. I kind of felt powerless," Lee said, acknowledging that he had "misjudged" the computer programme's abilities.
"Yes, I do have extensive experience in playing the game of Go, but there was never a case where I was under this much pressure.... and I was incapable of overcoming it," he added.
For AlphaGo's creators, Google DeepMind, victory went way beyond the $1 million dollar prize money, to prove that AI has far more to offer than superhuman number-crunching.
"To be honest, we are a bit stunned and speechless," said a smiling DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who stressed that Lee's defeat in Seoul should not be seen as a loss for humanity.
"Because the methods we have used to build AlphaGo are general purpose, our hope is that in the long-run we will be able to use these techniques for many other problems," Hassabis said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/12191963/Game-over-Google-programme-wins-series-against-Go-champion-in-victory-for-AI.html
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