Google AI to play live Go match against world champion
5 February 2016
It comes a week after the search giant announced that AlphaGo
had beaten French Go champion Fan Hui. That was seen as a pivotal moment for AI, similar
to IBM's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov at chess. The match will take place
in Seoul, South Korea, and will be live-streamed via YouTube. Demis
Hassabis, head of Google's DeepMind lab, announced the news in a tweet. Mr
Sedol said in a statement that although AlphaGo appeared to be a strong player,
he was "confident" that he could win the match. Go is widely regarded
as a more complicated game than chess, because of the larger choice of moves, making
it a good measure
of
how AI technology is developing. Computers have played Go and beaten amateurs but, before
Google's victory against the French champion, experts had predicted that it
would take another 10 years until a computer could beat the world's best Go
professionals. There has been a long tradition of AI software going head-to-head with human
players. In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue took on chess world champion Garry Kasparov
and won, although Mr Kasparov went on to win three and draw two of the
following five games. Then in 2011, IBM's cognitive platform
Watson took on the world's best Jeopardy players, a popular American quiz show
and scooped the $1m prize. Watson had access to 200 million pages of
structured and unstructured content but was not connected to the internet
during the game.
Structure of the lead:
WHO- Lee Sedol
WHAT-AlphaGo
WHEN-5 February 2016
WHERE- Seoul, South Korea
HOW-AlphaGo is going to have a match with the world’s
highest ranked Go player
WHY- not given
Vocabulary
1.
Pivotal:關鍵的
2.
AI:人工智慧
3.
Live-streamed:直播
4.
Complicated:複雜的
5.
Amateurs:業餘
6.
But: 任何人(代詞)
7.
Predicted:預測的
8.
Head-to-head:肉搏戰
9.
Cognitive:認知
10.
Scooped:掏出
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