2016年CRI Chinese Top Go Players: AlphaGo Can Eventually Beat All Human Players

 

Ke Jie says the machine is improving its play every day, which is hard for human beings to achieve.

"I said before that I could beat AlphaGo easily and now I still believe I have more chances to win the match against AlphaGo. But the thing is AlphaGo has been learning and making progress all the time and it will eventually beat all of us, simply because AlphaGo is learning so much faster than human Go players."

The victory by AlphaGo on Thursday puts the machine's owners closer to a one-million US dollar prize.

Lee, who has won 18 world Go championships, admits his loss yesterday was even more decisive¹ than his first loss.

"For today's game, in terms of content, it was an absolute loss for me. From the beginning there was not even a moment in which I was dominating². And I did not find anything peculiar³. In yesterday's game, I thought there were a few problems, but for today, it was a complete victory for AlphaGo. I think AlphaGo played a perfect game."

Lee Sedol and AlphaGo will have three more matches in their best-of-5 battle.

Ke Jie predicted that Lee could lose all the matches.

"It does not seem a good thing for we professional Go players, but the match plays a very good role in promoting Go. Not many people knew much about Go before, but after the match between Lee and AlphaGo, people all over the will start to know Go." 

The competition in Seoul comes just over 20-years after IBM's "Deep Blue" won its first chess match against Russian chess grand master Garry Kasparov in February of 1996.

While Kasparov won their first battle, IBM later upgraded⁴ "Deep Blue," giving it the ability to eventually defeat Kasparov a year later.

Many had believed it would take another decade for computers to conquer the ancient Chinese board game, one of the most creative games ever devised and the only board game left to conquer.

1 decisive   

adj.决定性的，坚定的，果断的，决断的

参考例句：

• A decisive person acts quickly and often succeeds.果断的人行动迅速，常常成功。
• Man is a decisive factor in doing everything.人是做每件事情的决定性因素。

2 dominating   

adj.有领导作风的；统治的，独裁的v.控制( dominate的现在分词 )；在…中占首要地位；在…中具有最重要（或明显）的特色；在…中拥有最重要的位置

参考例句：

• He is dominating and active in manner. 他有领导作风而且能采取主动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Gradually commodity production becomes the dominating form. 商品生产逐渐地成了统治的形式。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源

3 peculiar   

adj.古怪的，异常的；特殊的，特有的

参考例句：

• He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
• He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。

4 upgraded   

升级的，提升的

参考例句：

• They upgraded the land by improving it with new buildings. 他们建造新楼房来提高土地的等级。
• Our legation was upgraded to an embassy. 我们的公使馆升级为大使馆。