The DeepMind program that beat Lee Sedol four games to one in March 2016, watched by a reported two hundred million people, and played a move in game two that a commentator said no human would play. The record files it as the last AI event people remember as sport, and notes that Lee's win in game four is the era's only human victory anyone celebrates.
13 March 2016, game four, Lee Sedol's move 78, the wedge, and the program's collapse afterwards. The record notes that the room, the commentators and the internet cheered for the human, and that it was the last time.
I watched game one at three in the morning on a stream with the sound off and understood none of it. Then Lee resigned and I understood that.
The record notes that AlphaGo's move 37 in game two was put at a one in ten thousand chance of being played by a person, and that the number was quoted more than the move.
Retired in May 2017 after beating Ke Jie three games to nil in Wuzhen. The record notes that its successor, AlphaGo Zero, learned from no human games at all, which is the sequel nobody asked to watch.
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