Google's AI wins final Go challenge
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence has secured its fourth win over a master player, in the final of a five match challenge.
Lee Se-dol, one of the world's top Go players, won just one of the matches against the AlphaGo program, missing out on the $1m prize up for grabs.
Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, said the match had been the "most exciting and stressful" for his team.
Lee Se-dol said he felt "regrettable" about the result of the contest.
In Go, players take turn placing stones on a 19-by-19 grid, competing to take control of the most territory.
The game is considered to be much more challenging for computers than chess.
At a press conference held after the final match, Mr Lee said he did not necessarily think AlphaGo was superior to humans.
But he said he had more studying to do, and admitted the matches had challenged some of his ideas about the game Go.
In some countries the people watch football on big screens in public squares, but in South Korea it's been the mighty challenge of machine against humanity.
And the victory of the computer has led to some introspection.
One South Korean newspaper complained that the contest was "lopsided" with the single Korean pitted against the corporate might of Google and its "army of super-smart people armed with unfathomable computing power".
In a spirit of magnanimity, however, the Korea Baduk Association - which governs the game of Go - has decided to give an honorary ninth-dan ranking to AlphaGo.
The 4-1 mechanical victory has also made some Go players doubt themselves.
The European champion who lost last year to AlphaGo said it had really knocked his self-confidence, even as it enabled him to climb up the world rankings.
Go was invented about 2,500 years or so ago in China. Until now, it has always had a human best player. Not any more.
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This news told us that the computer was becoming more intelligent and we hadn't expected it. That may cause some advantages and disadvantages. Looking on the positive side, we have those techniques to invent computers ,which were successful and that super computer was more helpful than before. However, if we invent smarter computers, they might replace our situation. To make matters worse, human beings will become lazy and jobless in the future.
回覆刪除That Alpha Go won the best player in the world is a warn to the world. It means that computers will defeat us someday. Although they may do more things for us than those they can do now, they may have more possibility to replace us. So I think we have to use computers properly and not to rely on them immoderately.
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