Plate V. The Neural Lattice, 2006–2017

— Research

AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol

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DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeats Go champion Lee Sedol 4–1 in Seoul. Its 37th move in game two, initially judged a mistake, becomes famous.

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