{"id":6654,"date":"2016-03-28T22:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2016-03-28T22:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:31:43","slug":"google-computer-beats-18-time-master-go-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/google-computer-beats-18-time-master-go-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google computer beats 18-time master Go champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/go-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/go-header.jpg\" alt=\"stones on a Go board\" width=\"420\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AlphaGo&#8217;s victory is seen as a major landmark for artificial intelligence Credit: Reuters<br \/>\nA computer programme has beaten an 18-time international Go player champion in a best-of-five series competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Google-developed programme took an unassailable 3-0 lead against one of the ancient game&#8217;s greatest modern players, Lee Se-dol, in South Korea on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Its triumph is seen as a landmark moment for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Se-dol looks deflated after his defeat to AlphaGo Credit: Reuters<br \/>\nChinese board game Go is considered to be a much more complex challenge for a computer than chess.<\/p>\n<p>But the computer programme, AlphaGo, took just four hours to secure its third consecutive win over Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who has topped the world ranking for much of the past decade and had predicted an easy victory when accepting the AlphaGo challenge, now finds himself fighting to avoid a whitewash in the two remaining dead rubbers on Sunday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to say, but I think I have to express my apologies first,&#8221; Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I apologise for being unable to satisfy a lot of people&#8217;s expectations. I kind of felt powerless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lee acknowledged he had &#8220;misjudged&#8221; the computer programme&#8217;s abilities.<br \/>\nGo involves two players alternately laying black and white stones on a chequerboard-like grid of 19 lines by 19 lines. The winner is the player who manages to seal off more territory.<\/p>\n<p>AlphaGo uses two sets of &#8220;deep neural networks&#8221; that allow it to crunch data in a more human-like fashion &#8211; dumping millions of potential moves that human players would instinctively know were pointless.<\/p>\n<p>AlphaGo&#8217;s creators reacted to the computer&#8217;s victory saying they were &#8220;stunned and speechless&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlphaGo&#8217;s victory is seen as a major landmark for artificial intelligence Credit: Reuters A computer programme has beaten an 18-time international Go player champion in a best-of-five series competition. The Google-developed programme took an unassailable 3-0 lead against one of the ancient game&#8217;s greatest modern players, Lee Se-dol, in South Korea on Saturday. Its triumph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cls-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}