Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Go master quits because AI 'cannot be
defeated'
Born in March 1983, Lee Sedol is a South
Korean professional Go player of 9 dan rank. He became a professional Go player
when he was 12 and has been considered as one of the most prominent Go players
in the modern era. Originated in China, Go is a three-millennium old game. It is a
very complex game as each player usually has 200 moves to choose, ten times
more than chess.
In March 2019, he played a five-game match
against the computer program AlphaGo, developed by DeepMind, an artificial intelligence
arm of Google. Before the match, he was confident that he would win but was defeated
one-to-four, though the games were very close. The defeat of this legendary Go
champion is regarded as a landmark moment for artificial intelligence. Now, the
18-time world Go champion has decided to retire from his glorious Go career. He
said that there is an entity that cannot be defeated.
Was he the last line of human defense against
machines?
Enjoy reading the article and think about
what humans can do better than artificial intelligence, instead of what AI can
do.
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