Google's AlphaGo Beats Lee Se-dol In the First Match (theverge.com)

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 9, 2016 @01:49AM from the went-or-will-have-gone dept.

New submitter Fref writes with news from The Verge that "A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, the program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Lee resigned after about three and a half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. "
Lee will face off against AlphaGo again tomorrow and on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday. Also at the New York Times. Science magazine says the loss may be less significant than it seems at first.

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RIP by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-09 02:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Rest in Peace Slashdot....
I have followed you (and had even registered nickname with five digits) for years, only to drop out few years ago once you started these stupid website redesigns for survival.
There are no more commenters, as I remember when often it was three digits if not even four, and now it is often just two digits if even barely that.
5-10 years ago the news like this would have triggered 1000-1500 comments, but now just few dozens.