{"id":99092,"date":"2019-11-27T18:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/former-go-champion-beaten"},"modified":"2019-11-28T16:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T00:46:50","slug":"former-go-champion-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/former-go-champion-beaten","title":{"rendered":"Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires after declaring AI invincible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-go-champion-beaten3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When competing, it makes sense to compete on\/with that worth competing (for). AI or not, it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol has retired from professional play, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20191127004800315\"><em>Yonhap<\/em> news agency<\/a> that his decision was motivated by the ascendancy of AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the debut of AI in Go games, I\u2019ve realized that I\u2019m not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts,\u201d Lee told <em>Yonhap. \u201c<\/em>Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When competing, it makes sense to compete on\/with that worth competing (for). AI or not, it doesn\u2019t matter. The South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol has retired from professional play, telling Yonhap news agency that his decision was motivated by the ascendancy of AI. \u201cWith the debut of AI in Go games, I\u2019ve realized that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99092","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\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99120,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99092\/revisions\/99120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}