The five-game challenge between Korea's Go
Grandmaster Lee Se-dol and Google's AlphaGo
computer came to an end on Tuesday with the
highly complex AI system taking the spoils
in the final match,... winning the series
four-one.
Lee Se-dol came out of the experience with
his head held high and a nation proud of his
efforts.
Lee Ji-won has more.
After five long hours and 280 moves, Lee Se-dol
resigned.
The five-game challenge between Korean grandmaster
Lee Se-dol and AlphaGo came to an end on Tuesday,
with AlphaGo winning four to one.
At the start of the final match, Lee took
control with territories established in the
lower-right side of the board.
But, as he was unsuccessful in taking over
AlphaGo's upper territory, the machine chased
him right away.
It was a tight game to the end... but Lee's
creative moves could not win against AlphaGo's
keen calculations and sturdy concentration.
"It's too bad that I didn't get to win and
I am sorry for falling short of expectations
of many people.
I would also like to thank everyone for their
support.
But most importantly, as I had mentioned before,
this is my defeat against artificial intelligence,...
not humanity's."
In fact, AlphaGo's win does not mean artificial
intelligence has outsmarted humans, but that
humans found a way to become smarter and have
more sophisticated lives.
Demis Hassabis, the developer of AlphaGo and
CEO of DeepMind, believes that AlphaGo will
become a great tool in training people and
further improving artificial intelligence.
He added that one day, the general purpose
algorithm in AlphaGo will be used in real
world applications including healthcare, climate
change and robotics to solve problems.
AI still has a long way to go to reach that
stage of development, but in the end, it's
all the more for humanity.
Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.
