Human Go Champion 'Speechless' After 2nd Loss To Machine (phys.org)

Reader chasm22 points to a Phys.org report about the second straight loss of Lee Sedol to AlphaGo, the program developed by Google's DeepMind unit. The human Go champion, Sedol found himself "speechless" after the showdown on Thursday. The human versus machine face-off lasted more than four hours, which to Sedol's credit is a slight improvement over his previous match, which had ended with him resigning nearly half an hour remaining on the clock. "It was a clear loss on my part," Sedol said at a press conference on Thursday. "From the beginning there was no moment I thought I was leading." Demis Hassabis, who heads Google's DeepMind, said, "Because the number of possible Go board positions exceeds the number of atoms in the universe, top players rely heavily on their intuition." Sedol will battle Google's AlphaGo again on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday.

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What about Magic the Gathering?

[xevioso]

This is why games like Go and Chess pale in comparison to more modern games that rely upon language and some amount of randomness. Both Chess and Go are incredibly boring (to me, of course) and more recent games, especially euro-style board games offer much more in types of complexity and more importantly, fun.

I'd love to see a computer regularly beat a human being in a game of Magic the Gathering, block-constructed. Won't happen.