Google’s DeepMind AI has already played four games of Go against top human Lee Sedol, and the tally is 3-1 for the machines—good for computer scientists, bad for our betting chances against Skynet. Starting at midnight tonight, mankind has one more chance to play.
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The four rounds played already don’t leave many questions unanswered: DeepMind’s AlphaGo program already won the 5-game series, Sedol proved he can beat the computer, and South Korea’s Go federation already awarded AlphaGo a 9-dan rating, the same as Sedol.
All that’s really left to play for is a little bit of honor, and the chance to level the score a little. Going into the contest, Google’s Demis Hassabis put the odds at 50-50, so a 3-2 score would make him look extra-clever. In any case, the entire event is being livestreamed from the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul, for anyone with patience and a spare three hours.
