Google's AI takes on Go champion Lee Sedol in Seoul

Updated: 2016-03-09 14:23

(Xinhua/chinadaily.com.cn)

Google's AI takes on Go champion Lee Sedol in Seoul
South Korea's Lee Sedol, the world's top Go player, closes his eyes for rest before putting the first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo, during the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea, March 9, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]

Hundreds of journalists from around the world gathered at the venue to report on the match between Lee and AlphaGo.

Lee told a press conference on Tuesday that he got slightly nervous ahead of the match, lowering his confidence in his victory as he got to think that AlphaGo can mimic intuition of humans.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of the DeepMind, said AlphaGo became stronger than in October as the algorithm has made many upgrades since then.