Contemporary · East Asia · Technology
2016
AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol
March 9, 2016
DeepMind's neural network defeated the world's strongest human Go player four games to one in a Seoul hotel ballroom. Move 37 of game two stunned commentators with its alien beauty. A game that experts had said was a decade away from machine mastery was over. A new kind of intelligence had arrived.
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