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AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol

Era: Revival · 1990s–2010s

DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeated world Go champion Lee Sedol 4-1. Go was considered one of the most difficult board games for AI.

DeepMind AlphaGo

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  1. AlphaGo

    Google DeepMind · Source type: Primary announcement

    DeepMind’s own page states AlphaGo’s 4-1 victory over Lee Sedol in Seoul in March 2016.

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  2. Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search

    Nature · Source type: Paper

    The AlphaGo paper documents the system, and its 5-0 match against Fan Hui that preceded the Lee Sedol match.

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