The historic match up between Lee SeDol vs AlphaGo has been announced in public.
AlpahGo is AI Baduk program made by Deepmind of Google. The official name of the match up is decided as Google Deepmind challenge match.
Park ChiMun a vice president of KBA said in the press that this match up is very historic match as it is competition between human and AI. I am happy to see this kind of historic match will be operated by Baduk. I hope that Lee SeDol 9P would win this match up this time showing the greatness of human for Baduk and left great impression about Baduk to all people in the world.
Demis Hasabis a CEO of Google Deepmind said that the complexity of Baduk is so great and it is hard for AI to learn its complicated methods and experiences. I hope this match up would catch a lot of people's attention.
Lee SeDol 9p said that I know that AI level has made a lot of progress and still improving really fast. But I am confident to win thi s time.
Yu ChangHuk a director of Korea National Baduk Team also said that no one can predict how AlphaGo improve its level after the match with the Europe champion. I am really exciting to see this match up and curios how AI can overcome this great game of Baduk.
The winner of this great match takes 1 million dollar by 5 matches.
The first game of Google Deepmind Challenge Match is started from 9th of March and will be continued on 10th, 12th, 13th, 15th.
All games will be broadcasting on Youtube and Baduk TV and Cyberoro will also broadcasting.