World champion Go player resigns on the grounds that AI is currently unbeatable
Lee Sedol, the former world champion of technique game Go has resigned on the grounds that computers are currently great. Sedol broadly lost a best-of-five series of Go games against the Google-constructed Artificial Intelligence program DeepMind in 2016. Presently Sedol says that artificial intellience 'can't be vanquished'. The South Korean is a 18-time world champion and considered one of the best Go players of the modern age – yet was beaten 4-1 by DeepMind's AlphaGo programming . Sedol told the Yonhap news organization in South Korea that the presence of AI fit for playing the game had left him feeling unfit to genuinely view himself as the best. 'With the presentation of AI in Go games, I've understood that I'm not at the top regardless of whether I become the main through wild eyed endeavors,' he said. 'Regardless of whether I become the main, there is an element that can't be crushed.' AlphaGo's 2016 was broadly viewed as a miles...