Board Game Champ, Who Surrendered to Google, Beats AI in Surprise Game

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Human vs. AI: Board Game Champ, Who Surrendered to Google, Beats AI in Surprise Game
By Sissi Cao • 12/18/19 12:38pm

Korean Go master Lee Sedol, an 18-time world champion of the Chinese board game Go, proved that human brains may lose to top-notch artificial intelligence (AI) programs like DeepMind’s AlphaGo, but with less developed AI, we still have an edge.

On Wednesday, the 36-year-old Go player won a match over an AI program called HanDol, built by Korean IT company NHN Entertainment Corp, in the first game since his retirement series in Seoul, Korea.

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Lee’s surprise victory echoed a landmark game in 2016 in which Lee defeated AlphaGo once in a five-match showdown. He lost the other four matches but has since held the record as the only human to ever beat AlphaGo.

https://observer.com/2019/12/board-game-go-champion-lee-sedol-beat-ai-after-google-deepmind-alphago/

Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.[1][2] A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in East Asia.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

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1. HanDol AI program wins second game

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/12/20/2019122001386.html

Lee wasn't given a handicap and Handol never lost the advantage. A third game is scheduled. More at the link.