“Up for a match, Ke Jie?”
Following the defeat of Lee See-dol. AlphaGo’s rating as a human GO player is now seocnd only tRoboto China’s Ke Jie.
BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) — After South Korean grandmaster Lee See-dol was thrashed by AlphaGO, China’s top Go player, Ke Jie, still believes he is the one to beat the computer.
Google’s London-based AI subsidiary DeepMind, won the best-of-five series 4-1 over 7 days.
China’s Ke, an 18-year-old with three world titles, claims
“AlphaGo can’t beat me” before the much-hyped contest, kept up his confidence. “I believe I can beat it. Machines can be very strong in many aspects but still have loopholes in certain calculations”.
Ke Jie is aware that his winning chance will become slimmer as time goes by due to AlphaGo’s super strong learning ability. “It can teach itself and evolves better and better. It is hard to predict (who is going to win) after some time,” he said.
DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis had expressed the willingness to invite Ke as AlphaGo’s next opponent while the company’s research scientist Raia Hadsell raised the challenge directly.