Retired from Korea ’s top Go player “Even if you try hard, you wo n’t win AI” November 29, 10:08

AI = A top Korean player who won one game against Go computer program using artificial intelligence expressed his retirement. Regarding the reason for his retirement, I knew I could n’t. ”

On May 27, Korean news agency, Union News posted an interview with Lee Sedol Kudan, a professional athlete who announced his retirement this month at the age of 36.

Lee Kudan talked about the reason for his retirement, saying, “I found out that AI has made it impossible to become the top no matter how hard I try. I listed this as the reason for retirement.

Lee Kudan, who has a lot of international titles, played a 5th game against "AlphaGo," a Go game developed by a company under the umbrella of IT giant Google, and won one win despite four losses. I've mentioned, but no one has won AlphaGo since then.

In Go, where there are many game patterns compared to shogi and chess, AI was said to be difficult to win against humans, but it has evolved dramatically by deep learning techniques and is a symbolic indication of the potential of AI It became an event.

The AI ​​of Go has continued to be developed, and now it is further evolving, such as the development of “AlphaGo Zero”, a model that wins 100 times against the program that broke Lee Kudan.