(INCREASE) – South Korean player ‘Go’ loses against artificial intelligence program Google – Yonhap News Agency

2016/03/09 18:31 KST

SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) – Men 0 machine 1. AlphaGo artificial intelligence program developed by Google has expired Wednesday the South Korean player “Go” Lee Se-dol in the first game between man and machine, surprising the world by taking the lead in the historic tournament best of five games.

in the match played at the Four Seasons Seoul, AlphaGo, hotel program developed by the firm DeepMind of Google, based in London, he beats Lee when resigned after playing three hours with a total of 186 movements.

Lee, ninth dan player who turned pro at 12 years old, will play its second game on Thursday against AlphaGo in the same hotel. Then Lee will face AlphaGo again on Saturday and Sunday, before playing the last game of the tournament on Tuesday.

The tournament will continue even if a party wins three games since Google wants to provide greater AlphaGo data, already shocked the community after defeating Go in October, the European champion second dan Fan Hui by 5 to 0

. In this photo provided by Google, Lee Se-dol (right.) Places a tile on the board during his first game against AlphaGo .

Lee, 33 years old and winner of 47 competitions “Go” and 18 world titles, had predicted last month that he would win the tournament with a score of 5-0 or 4 -1, but one day before the meeting recanted saying that these scores could not happen.

Lee’s concerns became reality.

Lee started the game, played on goal closed, taking one of the four points 3-4 of the board near the upper right end (from the point of view of Lee). After 1 minute and 30 seconds AlphaGo made his first move, putting his white profile board position 4-4, or “dot flower” upper left.

Lee, who carried a cup coffee, selected after the point 3-4 on the bottom right, indicating its intention to ensure the right region of the board, while AlphaGo, whose movements were made on the board by the programmer DeepMind and amateur sixth dan Aja Huang , continued with common movements, taking another “dot flower” in the lower left.

Lee, who is known for his aggressive playing style and unconventional, placed his third tab near the point flower top left but then the dispute moved toward the center of the board.

Although AlphaGo made some moves that South Korean commentators described as “strange”, the machine did not yield to the pressure of Lee, who began to feel frustration and at one point even got up from his seat to cool.

in the second half of the game, Lee tried to defend their terriorios on the right side but cold and precise movements of AlphaGo pressured Lee until he left the game.

the “Go” game is a native of China, with more than 2,500 years old. In the same two players move alternately black white stones on a square board participate. The object of the game is to get more territory than the opponent by surrounding empty areas of the board using stones.

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