In an exciting forces comparison between humans and computers in the Asian game of Go, a Google software has surprisingly defeated the top player Lee Se-dol
the software AlphaGo won on Wednesday in the South Korean capital Seoul, the first of five planned games
the 33-year-old Korean Lee Sedol shed around three and a half hours of playing time. , He was previously hopes of overall victory, but acknowledged that people made mistakes rather than machines.
Lee is one of the world’s top Go players. He will “vastly” win, the 30-year-old had announced in February.
When you go try two players to conquer territories on the game board. But they take turns placing white and black stones. Who has conquered most of the fields, has won.
The setting possibilities of Go surpass chess. The game was for computer long as too complex, last fall the Google software hit but the first time a professional player, the European champion Fan Hui. In chess long computer are already used. IBM’s Deep Blue World Champion Gary Kasparov.
The match in Seoul suggested in 1997 consists of five sections and runs until 15 March. Google transfers the games live at its video platform YouTube. The winner gets one million US dollars (900,000 euros)
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