Korea's Lee Se-dol,... grandmaster of the
game of Baduk... or Go as it's known around
the world... and artificial intelligence super
computer AlphaGo are about to face off one
more time in the final round of the historic
match pitting human against machine.
The match gets started at 1PM here in Korea,...
under an hour from now.
For more, we connect to Lee Ji-won, who's
at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul, where
the games are taking place.
Ji-won, AlphaGo has already been declared
the victor in the best-of-five series, but
Lee Se-do pulled off an upset over the weekend
that seemed to show that AI hasn't caught
up to humanity just yet.
As with all the other days,... everyone is
pulling for Lee Se-dol today...
That's right, Mark.
Regardless of what happens today,... the one-million
U.S. dollar cash prize and the bragging rights
will go to Google and Team DeepMind, but everyone
here is really hoping Lee Se-dol can go out
on a high note.
There's extra anticipation this afternoon
as Lee Se-dol pulled off an amazing win in
the fourth match on Sunday.
The AI system couldn't handle Lee's skillful
play and was forced to call it quits.
After the game, Lee Se-dol said he had identified
two weaknesses in AlphaGo's play.
One is that AlphaGo was weaker when it played
first, holding the black stones.
The other is that, when Lee made an unexpected,
creative move,... AlphaGo seemed confounded
and made mistakes
Team DeepMind agree that AlphaGo has higher
winning rate when it plays second with the
white stones.
Lee Se-dol suggested to the DeepMind team
that AlphaGo play its favored white stones
in this afternoon's game so he can challenge
himself and hopefully steal the AI system's
thunder.
Well, everyone in Korea and perhaps the whole
of humanity hopes the human grandmaster can
win this game and end the series three-two.
Perhaps if he does, we can expect a rematch
soon.
Well, that's all I have for now.
Back to you Mark.
