Stephanie Mlot/PCMag.com wrote:
Google's AlphaGo won the first of five games against world champion Go player Lee Sedol.
Stationed in South Korea, the players—one human, one machine—completed their inaugural match last night.
"They were neck-and-neck for its entirety, in a game filled with complex fighting," Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wrote in a blog post. "Lee Sedol made very aggressive moves, but AlphaGo did not back down from the fights."
All bouts are played by Chinese rules, with no handicap and a komi of 7.5 (compensation points awarded to the second player at the end of the game). Each competitor has two hours per game, and each game is expected to last four to five hours. In their first match, AlphaGo cut it close, using nearly all of its time (1:55); Sedol, meanwhile, had almost 30 minutes left on the clock (1:32). The players made 186 total moves.
