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Limits RegistryAlphaGo's victory over Lee Sedol in March 2016 was a landmark AI milestone: Go's enormous branching factor and reliance on intuitive pattern recognition had led many experts to predict computers were a decade or more away from beating top human players. AlphaGo combined deep neural networks trained on human expert games with Monte Carlo tree search and reinforcement learning from self-play.
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AlphaGo's victory over Lee Sedol in March 2016 was a landmark AI milestone: Go's enormous branching factor and reliance on intuitive pattern recognition had led many experts to predict computers were a decade or more away from beating top human players. AlphaGo combined deep neural networks trained on human expert games with Monte Carlo tree search and reinforcement learning from self-play.
DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, a 9-dan professional and one of the top Go players in the world, 4 games to 1 in a five-game match played in Seoul, South Korea in March 2016.
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Limits Registry. LR-ALPHAGO-LEE-SEDOL. AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol. 2026.