Google's AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA --- After an extraordinarily close contest, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has beaten Lee Sedol, one of the world's top players, in the first game of their historic five-game match at Seoul's Four Seasons hotel. Geordie Wood for WIRED This morning in Seoul, today's match was front page news---quite literally---with the average Korean very much rooting for native son Lee Sedol. "This is a lot more attention than Go usually gets," said one of the match's English language commentators, Michael Redmond. Sedol played black and AlphaGo white, which meant Sedol made the first move, making a fairly common opening---and one that was only slightly different from the opening played by three-time European Go Fan Hui during his closed-door match with AlphaGo this past October.