Former Go Champion Retires After Being Beaten By DeepMind AI

Korean Go player, Lee Se-dol has officially retired. This unexpected decision came after Lee Se-dol got beaten by the artificial intelligence DeepMind of Google. Lee Se-dol has been a world champion of Go 18 times, but he had to admit that he could not beat the artificial intelligence.

Speaking to Yonhap news agency, Lee Se-dol said that with AI, he realized even when he had become the world champion, he could still be defeated.

Previous to the match, Lee even predicted that he would defeat AlphaGo and was shocked when he lost. Go experts agreed that it was an outstanding match. AlphaGo, with its “move 37” surprised the world. Initially, human experts thought that it was a mistake. Lee, with his “move 78” was able to win a single game. He is the only human to ever beat AlphaGo.

For many years, Go has been considered to be able to handle the most sophisticated computer systems. This ancient chess game is famous for being extremely complex, with more possibilities happening than the number of atoms in the universe that we can observe.

However, in 2016, when Google’s artificial intelligence company DeepMind shocked the world by defeating Go world champion with AI AlphaGo system. The concept of how complex Go is has been completely erased. The system has also shown the world that AI can do unimaginable and extraordinary things.

This December, Lee Se-dol will have his last match with the AI called HanDol created in Korea. And Lee will receive a two-stone advantage. However, even with this advantage, Lee doubts that he could win the artificial HanDol.