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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by pacala on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:15AM (#11272548)
> The suspicion is that since AlphaGo plays purely for probability of long-term victory rather than playing for points [snip]

I wonder how many handicap stones do Lee Sedol, or Ke Jie for that matter, need to have a shot at winning even one game.

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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by ceejayoz on Saturday March 12, 2016 @09:38AM (#11273039)
Now that's a really interesting question. Give AlphaGo progressively worse losing positions and see if it can rescue what the human masters would consider a disaster.
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