When did AlphaGo defeat Fan Hui in 2015?
AlphaGo defeated European champion Fan Hui five games to zero by October 2015. This system used 1,202 CPUs and 176 GPUs to process moves during matches against human professionals.
AlphaGo defeated European champion Fan Hui five games to zero by October 2015. This system used 1,202 CPUs and 176 GPUs to process moves during matches against human professionals.
The match between Lee Sedol and AlphaGo took place over five days in March 2016 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul. The final score stood at four games to one in favor of the computer program with each side receiving two hours of thinking time plus three 60-second periods for additional moves.
AlphaGo Zero won 100 games to zero against the earlier AlphaGo Lee iteration within just three days of self-play. By day 40 it exceeded all older versions alone using only 4 Tensor Processing Units running as a single machine.
Lee Sedol received $150,000 for participating while the winning prize of US$1 million went to charity including UNICEF. The Korea Baduk Association awarded honorary professional status to recognize creative skills exhibited during competition.
Most experts had predicted such powerful programs would remain at least five years away from existence before the match occurred. In China the event became known as a Sputnik moment convincing the government to dramatically increase funding for artificial intelligence initiatives.