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		edanm on March 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] Don't have the link offhand, but I read on Reddit that Lee Seedol and a few other Go professionals pulled an all-nighter coming up with ways to beat AlphaGo, and one of their guesses was that AlphaGo would be bad at Ko's. I think the reasoning was because that hadn't happened in the games, so they assumed it was avoiding them.

pixl97 on March 12, 2016 [–]

>so they assumed it was avoiding them.

I think us humans made a critical error in that line of thinking.

It didn't avoid ko because of the risk of loss.

It avoided ko because of the lack of strategic win.

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