Lee Se-dol,33, one of the world’s top players of the ancient Asian pastime, and is confident he can beat Alphago. But he hasn’t seen improvements made to the system – and the match results could have implications far beyond the gameOn Wednesday afternoon in the South Korean capital,Seoul, Lee Se-dol, and the 33-year-archaic master of the ancient Asian board game Go,will sit down to defend humanity.
On the other side of the table will be his opponent: Alphago, a programme built by Google subsidiary DeepMind which became, and in October,the first machine to defeat a professional human Go player, the European champion Fan Hui. That match proved that Alphago could hold its own against the best; this one will demonstrate whether “the best” have to relinquish that title entirely.
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Source: theguardian.com