Fan Hui

2 entries between January 2016 and March 2016, 1 turning point.

Turning points

  1. AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4-1 in Seoul

    DeepMind’s AlphaGo won the last game of a five-game match against Lee Sedol in Seoul on 15 March 2016, taking the series 4-1. Lee, a nine-dan professional, won game four, the only game the program lost. The winner’s $1 million prize went to charity.

Every entry

  1. AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4-1 in Seoul

    DeepMind’s AlphaGo won the last game of a five-game match against Lee Sedol in Seoul on 15 March 2016, taking the series 4-1. Lee, a nine-dan professional, won game four, the only game the program lost. The winner’s $1 million prize went to charity.

  2. Nature publishes the paper behind AlphaGo

    Nature published “Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search” by David Silver, Demis Hassabis and 18 co-authors at Google DeepMind. It disclosed that AlphaGo had already beaten the European champion Fan Hui five games to nil in October 2015.