Former Go Champ Retires From Game: AI ‘Cannot Be Defeated’
Former Go champion Lee Se-dol has retired from professional competition—because artificial intelligence.
The South Korean Go master gained global fame in 2016 as the only human to defeat DeepMind’s AlphaGo computer program.
Now he’s bowing out of the sport due to the “invincibility” of AI Go programs.
“With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve realized that I’m not at the top even if I become the No. 1 through frantic efforts,” Se-dol told South Korean news agency Yonhap. “Even if I become the No. 1, there is an entity that cannot be defeated.”
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“I rarely read comments on Internet news about me. But I got curious about how badly people were speaking of me after my three straight losses to AlphaGo,” he said in an interview with Yonhap. “Unexpectedly, few people criticized me.
“Frankly, I had sensed kind of a defeat even before the start of the matches against AlphaGo,” Se-dol continued. “People from Google’s DeepMind Technologies looked very confident from the beginning.”
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