AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches

Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by jcoffland on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @03:50PM (#11255646)

This is misleading. AlphaGo beat a 2p player five months ago. Now it has beaten a 9p player. That tells is nothing about it's improvement in the intervening time. Given only this information, however unlikely, AlphaGo could have actually been stronger before.

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by eru on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @07:00PM (#11256545)

AlphaGo lost a few of the informal matches.

Also, the people working on it flat out told the world that today's version of AlphaGo beats October's version literally all the time.

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by Wildgoose on Thursday March 10, 2016 @09:09AM (#11259245)

Replying to scarmig, No. Player A may consistently beat Player B who may consistently beat Player C who consistently beats Player A.

There are different strategies depending upon how much emphasis is placed upon early territorial gains as opposed to "influence" which is used for later later territorial gains.

Similarly, playing "passive" moves that make territory without starting a "fight" versus agressively contesting for every piece of territory available.

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by scarmig on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:45AM (#11259122)

Question: is ability to win Go matches ordered?

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by hosh on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:33AM (#11260157)

It's more that there are different styles of winning, and a human will tend to specialize in such a style. But generally, someone who is consistently stronger will win over someone who is consistently weaker, regardless of style.

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