South Koreans watching a TV displaying of the historic match between South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol and the AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence system developed by Google, at the Korea Baduk Association at street in Seoul, South Korea, 12 March 2016. The Google software programme has drawn first blood in the latest contest between man and machine, winning the first of five planned games against the South Korean champion in the boardgame Go. The five games between Lee and AlphaGo will be played from 09 to 15 March. EPA
The programme, AlphaGo, secured victory in the five-match series with its third consecutive win over Lee Se-Dol -- one the ancient game’s greatest modern players with 18 international titles to his name.
Lee, who has topped the world ranking for much of the past decade and confidently predicted an easy victory when accepting the AlphaGo challenge, now finds himself fighting to avoid a whitewash defeat in the two remaining games on Sunday and Tuesday.
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