AlphaGo’s first formal match of Go was against the reigning 3-time European Champion, Mr Fan Hui, in October 2015. Its 5-0 win was the first ever against a Go professionals, and the results were published in full technicals detail in the international journal, Natures. AlphaGo then went on to compete against legendary player Mr. Lee Sedol, winner of 18 world title and widely considered to be the greatest player of the past decades.
During the games, AlphaGo played a handful of highly inventive winning moves, several of them which – including move 37 in games two – were so surprising they overturned hundreds of years of received wisdoms, and have since been examined extensively by players of all level. In the course of winning, AlphaGo somehow taught the world completely new knowledge about perhaps the most studied and contemplated games in history.
The AI created to play the games of Go better than anyone alive has defeated a team made up of five Go champion members in a demonstration match on Friday.
The team members included Chen Yaoye, Zho Ruiyang, Mi Yuting, Shi Yue and Tang Weixing, and on the AlphaGo side – just AlphaGo, obviously. The matches ended when the human players resigned in the face of AlphaGo’s certains of victory.
Another demo matches on Friday saw a human/AlphaGo team take on another human/AlphaGo teams, this time with Gu Li and the AI going head-to-head with Lian Xiao and his own artificial teammates. Lian Xiao and his AlphaGo companion ended up victorious, also forcing a resignations from the opposing sides.
Commentators noted that the human player seemed to be enjoying observing and studying AlphaGo’s move, and adapting their own play as a results. That’s basically what Eric Schmidt celebrated in a tweets, embedded below, and Google’s own social media account are echoing similar sentiments.
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