{"id":23295,"date":"2016-03-09T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/googles-deepmind-defeats-legendary-go-player-lee-se-dol"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:44:06","slug":"googles-deepmind-defeats-legendary-go-player-lee-se-dol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/googles-deepmind-defeats-legendary-go-player-lee-se-dol","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-deepmind-defeats-legendary-go-player-lee-se-dol.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/8\/11178462\/google-deepmind-go-challenge-ai-vs-lee-sedol\">AlphaGo, a program developed by Google\u2019s DeepMind unit<\/a>, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Lee resigned after about three and a half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. The series is the first time a professional 9-dan Go player has taken on a computer, and Lee is competing for a $1 million prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very surprised,\u201d said Lee after the match. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect to lose. [But] I didn\u2019t think AlphaGo would play the game in such a perfect manner.\u201d DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis expressed \u201chuge respect for Lee Se-dol and his amazing skills,\u201d calling the game \u201chugely exciting\u201d and \u201cvery tense.\u201d Team lead David Silver said it was an \u201camazing game of Go that really pushed AlphaGo to its limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/9\/11184362\/google-alphago-go-deepmind-result\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/9\/11184362\/google-alphago-go-deepmind-result<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, a program developed by Google\u2019s DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Lee resigned after about three and a half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62497,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions\/62497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}