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pacala on March 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

> The suspicion is that since AlphaGo plays purely for probability of long-term victory rather than playing for points [snip]

I wonder how many handicap stones do Lee Sedol, or Ke Jie for that matter, need to have a shot at winning even one game.

ceejayoz on March 12, 2016 [–]

Now that's a really interesting question. Give AlphaGo progressively worse losing positions and see if it can rescue what the human masters would consider a disaster.

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