On: Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

[kybernetikos]

That was specifically discussed in the after match conference today. Demis said that it wasn't trained specifically against Lee but was trained against strong amateurs on the Internet initially before playing against itself. He said that even if they'd wanted to, alpha go requires a much larger number of games than are available by Lee Seoul to train so it wouldn't have been possible anyway.

[phatfish → kybernetikos]

It was discussed pre-match for game 2 or 3 as well, and Lee's games were described as "a drop in the ocean" I believe.

Came up because of an assertion from the interviewer that chess AI had been trained against it's opponent specifically.