Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Google software champion Lee Sedol beaten hands down – Ingenieur.de – The news portal for engineers

The world champion, who has already won 18 international titles in his career, was found on Tuesday in Seoul in five games by 280 trains. Four times lost the 33-year-old Lee against the self-learning, constant improvements to software. Only on Sunday in the fourth game he kept the upper hand.

AlphaGo and Lee played for a prize money of one million dollars. Google wants the sum now donate, among others, the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF.



Lee firmly believed in the victory against the machine

Before the first game had the world champion still tinted victory sure to win hands down against the software. The even most experts had expected because the game Go is much more varied than chess and therefore programming is extremely difficult. But the pitch has 361 boxes, chess only 64 fields. The game ways are so much greater. But Google’s Deep Mind seems to have succeeded, prepare the computer optimally for the match.

epa05207226 South Koreans watching a TV displaying of the historic match between South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol and the AlphaGo on artificial intelligence system developed by Google, at the Korea Baduk Association at Seoul station, in Seoul, South Korea, 12 March 2016. The Google software programs has drawn first blood in the latest contest between man and machine, winning the first of five planned games against the South Korean champion in the board game Go. The five games between Lee and AlphaGo wants be Played from 09 to 15 March EPA / KIM HEE CHUL +++ (c) dpa -. Bildfunk +++

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the game man vs. machine was transferred to south Korea live on television – even in the U- and S-Bahn

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These also served a match in October last year against the European champion fan Hui, the AlphaGo 5. 0 also clearly decided for themselves and from which the computer has apparently learned a lot

AlphaGo says trains his opponent ahead

AlphaGo has two neural networks with millions of compounds. Thus, the computer can “think” and assess the likely features of his opponent and the most likely train predict.

epa05212415 South Korean professional Go player Lee Se Dol (L) shakes hands wigh Demis Hassabis (R), co-founder of Google's artificial intelligence (AI) startup Deep Mind, during a press conference after his lastMatch against AlphaGo at artificial intelligence system developed by Google in Seoul, South Korea, 15 March 2016. An epic battle of man versus machine ended in South Korea with a Google artificial intelligence (AI) program solidifying its victory over the champion of the ancient Chinese strategy game Go by . winning the final match in the five-game tournament EPA / JEON Heon-KYUN / POOL +++ (c) dpa  - Bildfunk +++

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Go world champion Lee Se-dol (l.) gartuliert Demis Hassabis (r.), co-founder of the software company Deep Mind, to victory. Go is the most difficult game in the world

Photo:. Jeon Heon-Kyun / dpa

But he himself seems then but to react differently than a man. Lee Se-dol said in Seoul that his computer had always surprised with features that would make a man.

Click here to read our report on the first few games of the match.

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