Computer AI beats top go pro for first time!!

[flonnebonne]

Well, to be more accurate, the AI won the first game in the best-of-five series. The next game is tomorrow (or today, in not-my-time-zone), March 10, 2016. 

I am so excited! A little sad, but excited too!

Comments

[bridgetmkennitt]

I just read a similar article about that! The first thing I thought about was Hikaru no Go and what the characters would think about it.

[flonnebonne]

Me too! It must be such a shocker to go players. It's kind of heart-breaking read some of the reactions...

[bridgetmkennitt]

Exactly. To think they work so hard, honing their Go skills, only for their best to be beaten by a computer. Twice now! Obviously, it won't kill Go, but there has to be a bunch of players who have had their worlds turned upside down recently.

[verloren1983]

Oh man, Yang Hai would be completely beside himself. I'm unsure how to feel about it. I think I'll wait and see what happens with the rest of the games and then try to figure it out. XD

[flonnebonne]

I know rite @_@ This is all Yang Hai's fault!

On the one hand I'm happy for the programmers and the advancement of human knowledge, on the other hand waaaaah.

[onkoona]

It was bound to happen. But Go isn't just about winning, it's also about creating a great game. Like in all Zen things, it's the journey not the destination. Sometimes the HnG characters forget that and so do the RL folks, I guess.

[flonnebonne]

That's a good point! It's not as if chess became pointless when Deep Blue beat Kasparov. Hm, food for thought.

[issenllo]

And he just lost the 2nd game! I know what you mean. It's both exciting and regretful at the same time. But the machine age marches on, I suppose.

[bridgetmkennitt]

I just saw your comment and went to find the article about it. Poor guy. D:

[flonnebonne]

People's comments are getting sadder and sadder :o It's kind of hard to read.

[tuulentupa]

Hah, I'd missed this post! And heard of this today and came here to post about it... well, should have known someone's done it.

I went today to eat after the training with my haedong kumdo group, and found out that our, um, head-guy in Finland plays go. And he gave us a bit of a lecture about this matter. xD After a few beers. It was a very enthusiastic and very interesting lecture (okay, so, not a lecture, but that's the only word I can think of right now).

Apparently in the second game the AI made a move that made Lee Sedol stand up and leave the room for 7 (I think) minutes. And a commentator had said he had never seen a move like that (and I was going there, hand of god? Did a computer play hand of god? xD Well, maybe not quite.)

I really hope Lee Sedol will win tomorrow's game. They're going to play all five anyway, and I wonder if he really can do his best in the last games if he has lost all three games in a row. I'm even half-tempted to watch it (it can be livestreamed here, but... I don't think I'm going to get up at 6 am for this. xD Might take a look on what's going on when I do get up.

Yes, this is exciting! And a bit sad, as you said.

Stand up, Mr. Lee!

[flonnebonne]

That's even better than Shuusaku's ear-reddening move! Man, you've got to feel sorry for the guy. He's going to be remembered throughout history for losing to a computer instead of being remembered for how good he is.

I'm always surprised at how popular go is! My brother's co-worker is apparently a ranked player in North America, and there's a go club across the street from where I work with a Hikaru no Go picture in the window. :D At the last anime convention I was at there was a go presentation and they talked about there being another go club in the area too. It's certainly not anywhere near the mainstream, but I'm realizing it's not as obscure as I thought :)

Re: Stand up, Mr. Lee!

[tuulentupa]

And AlphaGo just won the third game... :/

Well, at least he'll be remembered as the world go champion (i.e. a really good player) who lost to a computer.....

Re: Stand up, Mr. Lee!

[flonnebonne]

Yeah, everyone remembers Kasparov for being awesome. They're connecting the far past to the distant future...

Re: Stand up, Mr. Lee!

[tuulentupa]

Lee Sedol won the fourth game. ^^
The beginning of the press conference was a bit funny, some people were actually chanting his name, and he laughed and said that he's never been congratulated this much for winning a single game. xD ...I think that reflects how much everyone was hoping him to win and how relieved they were when he did.

Re: Stand up, Mr. Lee!

[flonnebonne]

I think we are all a little biased in the human's favour XD It's so emotional for these people who've dedicated their lives to go, huh?

I have to admit I'm really happy too. :D

[lanerose]

It makes me ridiculously happy that one of the Chinese pros commenting on Game 4 (Gu Li) referred to the hand that turned the game in Lee Sedol's favor as the hand of god.

[flonnebonne]

^_^ That is awesome. I think we are all thinking about the hand of god right now...