SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — When South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol plays his retirement match later Wednesday against an artificial intelligence (AI) program, an amateur player will be behind the computer to place stones. Lee, who famously defeated AlphaGo of Google’s DeepMind in 2016, will be up against HanDol, a program developed by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol, who retired from professional Go competition last week after gaining worldwide fame in 2016 as the only human to defeat the artificial intelligence (AI) Go player AlphaGo, said his retirement was primarily motivated by the invincibility of AI Go programs. “With the debut [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol, who is the only human to score a win against the artificial intelligence (AI) Go player AlphaGo, retired Tuesday. The 36-year-old officially retired from Go competition by submitting his letter of retirement to the Korea Baduk Association, which overseas Go professionals in South [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol, who was famously defeated by Google’s artificial intelligence program AlphaGo, said Tuesday that he might retire at the end of this year. Lee, 36, made the surprising announcement after he fell to his Chinese rival Ke Jie in a special match at a [...]
ICHEON, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Human players handily beat robots with artificial intelligence (AI) in a curling game on Thursday, despite the machines demonstrating evolving skill levels. At a competition hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, two robots named Curly exhibited considerable skill in placing stones on target and showed the ability [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A new report has claimed North Korea’s artificial intelligence technology has reached a breaking point as a result of the country’s poor economic standing and sanctions by the international community, despite having made ‘significant’ technological advances in the past. According to the report released by researcher Kim Min-gwan at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s better late than never. Korea has finally taken its first step towards developing its own version of AlphaGo, a Google DeepMind AI program that shocked the global Go community last year by beating Lee Sedol, a South Korean professional Go player. The Korea Baduk Association hosted its first [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A total of 240 young prodigies of the strategic board game, Baduk, gathered at the 63 Building’s Grand Ballroom for the 16th World Youth Baduk Championship in Seoul. Players from nine different countries, including South Korea, China, and Japan, participated in the one-day tournament after competing in their respective regional [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – One of the greatest former Go-players, Cho Hunhyun, now a Saenuri Party Representative, suggested that Go match records should be protected under copyright law in a report for a provisional session of the Education, Culture, Sports & Tourism Committee. Rep. Cho told Kim Jong-deok, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol said Friday that he will talk with the representatives from the association that he wants to leave but expects that the conversation will end up with no breakthrough. Lee, who is known for having faced Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo in the ancient [...]