{"id":23274,"date":"2016-03-08T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/match-1-google-deepmind-challenge-match-lee-sedol-vs-alphago"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:44:09","slug":"match-1-google-deepmind-challenge-match-lee-sedol-vs-alphago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/match-1-google-deepmind-challenge-match-lee-sedol-vs-alphago","title":{"rendered":"Match 1 \u2014 Google DeepMind Challenge Match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vFr3K2DORc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch DeepMind\u2019s program AlphaGo take on the legendary Lee Sedol (9-dan pro), the top Go player of the past decade, in a $1M 5-game challenge match in Seoul. This is the livestream for Match 1 to be played on: 9th March <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8\">13:00<\/a> KST (local), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8\">04:00<\/a> GMT; note for US viewers this is the day before on: 8th March <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8\">20:00<\/a> PT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8\">23:00<\/a> ET.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2015, AlphaGo became the first computer program ever to beat a professional Go player by winning 5\u20130 against the reigning 3-times European Champion Fan Hui (2-dan pro). That work was featured in a front cover article in the science journal Nature in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Match commentary by Michael Redmond (9-dan pro) and Chris Garlock.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch DeepMind\u2019s program AlphaGo take on the legendary Lee Sedol (9-dan pro), the top Go player of the past decade, in a $1M 5-game challenge match in Seoul. This is the livestream for Match 1 to be played on: 9th March 13:00 KST (local), 04:00 GMT; note for US viewers this is the day before [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62499,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions\/62499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}