It's about Lee Sedol showing that he can beat AlphaGo no matter which stone he holds. If he can do that, the machine's match victory isn't quite so complete.

Lee Sedol then lost Game Three, and AlphaGo claimed the million-dollar prize in the best-of-five series. The mood inside the Four Seasons dipped yet again.

Midway through the first of five recent matches between Lee Sedol, a top-ranked professional Go player, and AlphaGo, a computer program conceived by Google DeepMind, an odd thing happened: Lee’s ...

AlphaGo also played black in Game Two, and in both of these games, Lee Sedol said, he felt that the machine wasn't as strong. "It struggled more when it was holding black," he said during the ...

On March 19, 2016, the strongest Go player in the world, Lee Sedol, sits down for a game against Google DeepMind’s artificial-intelligence program, AlphaGo. They’re at the Four Seasons Hotel ...

And Lee Sedol had only about 25 minutes left on his play clock, nearly an hour less than AlphaGo. The difference is key, since once a play clock runs out, a player must make each move in less than ...

Human Go player Lee Sedol is currently down 0-2 in a five game series against the AlphaGo program, which is powered by Google's DeepMind AI. The third match is currently under way at the Four ...

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol: Odds are shifting in $1 million man-vs.-machine Go match. by Alan Boyle on February 14, 2016 at 3:47 pm March 12, 2016 at 1:23 am. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

Lee Sedol versus AlphaGo. Computers versus humanity. For seven days in 2016, the world's top player of an ancient board game battled a new kind of artificial intelligence (AI).