Watch Lee Sedol beat Google's AlphaGo, and the final game

In October 2015, AlphaGo became the first computer program ever to beat a professional Go player by winning 5-0 against the reigning 3-times European Champion Fan Hui (2-dan pro). That work was featured in a front cover article in the science journal Nature in January 2016.
Watch DeepMind’s program AlphaGo take on the legendary Lee Sedol (9-dan pro), the top Go player of the past decade, in a $1M 5-game challenge match in Seoul. This is the livestream for Match 4 where Lee Sedol finally beat the AI:

The final game can be seen on this livestream for Match 5 to be played on: 15th March 13:00 KST (local), 04:00 GMT; note for US viewers this is the day before on: 14th March21:00 PT, 00:00 ET.

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