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AlphaGo defeats Go champion Lee Sedol in Game 1

AlphaGo · March 9, 2016
AlphaGo
System
AlphaGo
Series
DeepMind
Venue
Seoul, South Korea
Date
March 9, 2016
Lab / Organization
DeepMind
Nickname
AlphaGo defeats Go champion Lee Sedol in Game 1
Researchers
Lee Sedol
Demis Hassabis
David Silver

DeepMind's AlphaGo won the first game of its five-game match against top Go professional Lee Sedol on March 9, 2016, going on to win the series 4-1. Go had long been considered far harder for computers than chess due to its vast search space, making the victory a landmark for deep reinforcement learning. AlphaGo's move 37 in Game 2 became famous as a creative play no human would have chosen.

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