The Unfathomable Decision to Move

A 90 minute video called AlphaGo on YouTube. It's about this team of AI engineers who built the software, I think called AlphaGo, to be who basically is the Tiger Woods of Go. In Go, you play kind of like tennis, you play five sets. And so the first set or the first game, whatever you want to call it, the first match. Halfway through, the computer makes this completely unfathomable decision to move. This is being broadcast on TV. All of the commentators play by play announcers, the AI team itself behind the software, even the guy who's like the TigerWoods of Go, he kind of smirks at it.

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