Deep learning

3 entries between January 2016 and March 2019, 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. Turing Award goes to Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

    The Association for Computing Machinery named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award on 27 March 2019, for the work that made deep neural networks a central component of computing. The prize carries $1 million, funded by Google.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.