I had a feeling that AlphaGo would beat Lee Sedol yesterday after watching Fan Hui's interview [1]. According to Hui's recall, the defeat all came down to thes

I had a feeling that AlphaGo would beat Lee Sedol yesterday after watching Fan Hui's interview [1]. According to Hui's recall, the defeat all came down to these things: the state of the mind, confidence and human error. The gaming psychology is a big part of the game, without the feelings of fear of being defeated and almost never making mistakes like humans do, machine intelligence beating human at the highest level of competitive sports/games is inevitable. However, to truly master to game of Go, which in ancient Chinese society, it's more of an philosophy or art form than a competitive sport, there is still a long way to go. There were a ton of details Hui cannot speak of due to the non-disclosure agreement he signed with DeepMind, but those were the gist of the interview. In the end, AlphaGo match is 'a win for humanity', as ​Eric Schmidt put it. [2] [1] http://synchuman.baijia.baidu.com/article/344562 http://synchuman.baijia.baidu.com/article/344562 (In Chinese) Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsynchuman.baijia.baidu.com%2Farticle%2F344562 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&... [2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/alphago-match-a-win-for-humanity-eric-schmidt/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/alphago-match-a-win-for-humanit...