SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – There was no mercy from the machine. Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo beat South Korean Go champ Lee Se-dol in their final Go match on Tuesday, taking the five-round Go tournament with a score of 4-1. At the fifth man-versus-computer showdown in Seoul, AlphaGo, the AI designed by Google’s London-based firm [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – An experiment has been conducted to see if readers could discern the difference between articles written by robots and humans. In the study, participants were shown five articles written by robots about a baseball game. The results revealed that only 46 percent of the respondents could tell that they [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – After proving that the human-like algorithm is not invincible, South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol said Sunday he is very happy and described his victory as “priceless.” “It’s my first time getting this kind of congratulations from people by just winning a single game,” Lee said after the match. At [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo defeated South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol for the second straight time in the ancient board game Thursday, proving that its earlier victory wasn’t a coincidence. In their second showdown at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, AlphaGo, the AI designed by Google’s London-based firm [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol admitted to feeling “surprised” after losing the first match of the five-game showdown against computer on Wednesday. “I didn’t think I’d lose, and I was quite surprised,” Lee told a press conference in Seoul after succumbing to Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo. Lee [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – All eyes are on the Go battle of the century, the showdown of man versus artificial intelligence. With the world watching on in awe, AlphaGo turned in a much better performance than expected, and won the first match of the five-match series. However, amidst news of the victory, new [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Se-dol, a top-class South Korean Go player, said Tuesday he may not have his way with Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo, after all. A day before taking on the advanced human-like algorithm in the ancient board game Go, also known as “baduk” here, Lee said he now [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In an era when the climate is so unpredictable, a system that can simulate the effects of abnormal weather patterns 50 or even 100 years in the future has been established. The Ministry of Environment and the Climate Change Adoption System (CCAS) at the Korea Environment Institute established an [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a movie premise but actually realizable technology, it has been pointed out that Korean companies need to buckle down as they are lagging behind global IT giants. According to a report issued by the Institute for Information and Communications [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. continued to sit on the throne of the world’s NAND flash market in the fourth quarter of 2015, data showed Sunday, expanding the gap with other smaller rivals around the globe. The South Korean tech giant accounted for 33.6 percent of the market in the October-December period, [...]