Google AI (NASDAQ:GOOG,NASDAQ:GOOGL) has beaten the ‘Go’ world champion in a five-game series.
Lee Sedol battled the tech giant’s AlphaGo program and got swept in the series, losing three consecutive games plus a fourth one to boot. The game carried a prize of about $1 million.
The games were very close but AlphaGo succeeded by taking more time than his human counterpart. “I didn’t expect to lose,” said Sedol. “[But] I didn’t think AlphaGo would play the game in such a perfect manner.”
He resigned in all four games despite trying playing the game in both conservative and aggressive manners. Google AI learned the game without much human help, studying a database of about 100,000 human matches and playing against itself millions of times.
The machine reprogrammed itself and improved based on theories of how the human brain works.
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