When the Go game tournament rules were unveiled last month, human Lee Sedol was confident he’d win 5-0 or perhaps 4-1. Given that the AlphaGo algorithm had less than one year’s experience and was only believed to be at a 3 dan level, compared with the 20 years it took Sedol to get to the top 9 dan status, the match looked like it should have gone to man over machine. But, now that AlphaGo has already won three out of five matches, with just one more to go, it’s clear that we were underestimating the speed at which this technology is developing. The fact that…
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