Why did Lee Sedol, one of the world’s best ‘Go’ players, retire from the game?

One of the greatest ‘Go’ players of all time just retired from the game, saying that artificial intelligence programmes can play at a level humans aren’t able to. His decision has reignited discussions about AI and how we define human achievement. #AI #Go #LeeSedol #SouthKorea

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[cdh]

Hey I am from south korea. He actually retired cause of political matter in go organization. He just felt tired with politics. So dont waste time thinking too much. 😅😅

[samiam]

When Lee Sedol beat AlphaGo in the forth game with his 78th move, he became the only human player to reach 10th dan. Respect!

[luisbanegassaybe]

lol that’s not why he retired from go. It’s primarily related to his relationship to the Korean baduk association

[joerogansrealmpodcast]

I watched the deepmind documentary, he was such a humble man in the documentary, cant believe he quit :(

[neilreid]

Am deeply impressed by Lee Sedol who will forever be a legend in the great game of Go. I disagree that we should define ourselves by what machines are capable of because by design they are intended to vastly outperform humans. Consider the massive D-11 bulldozer, cranes, trains, and an endless list of other machines. When Lee Sedol took on AlphaGo, he wasn't playing against a single entity like a human opponent; he was taking on hundreds if not thousands of engineers and a cosmically vast computed data base.

[kingcountyband]

As long as he is happy and healthy I'm happy for him and his family. He is such a nice man, it was heartbreaking to watch him struggle against alpha go. And then he did the incredible, basically super human, and beat it, and not just by a little, the program behaved like it had been hit by a freight train until it finally conceded. I know nothing about the game but his humility has taught me a lot about being human.

[haroldbridges]

Other than some of the details about Sedol himself, this whole video is nothing but vacuous blather.

[jackdaniels]

Bobby Fischer also retired from the game of chess because he said people are just memorizing moves and are not being as creative.

[CousinPaddy]

Legendary Go player. He didn’t know what he was getting into at the time, and for him to continue to fight as hard as he did in the face of, what he must have realized were insurmountable odds, is a credit to the human spirit.

[exshenanigan]

Now South Korea needs to come up with a go deep learning algorithm called Sedol to compete with AlphaGo.

[htgmomh]

There is a Korean proverb, believed to have been handed down from China,
that says "Leave when praised."

[noreenalacre]

Everyone:
Why did the best 'Go' player retired?

Me:
To 'Stop'

[brayzgame]

Lee should have a channel...anyway, Lee you beat a computer!!! You're a f'n legend bruh!!!

[commentarytalk]

If you consider, however, the Alpha-Go/Zero/Lee computer suite of programs does not actually "understand" Go, but merely reduces it down to a refined database of probabilities per move from training incalculable times + perfect memory of the current best results from play-outs.

This is reason it appears to play "super-human" because it does not use the methods humans use which involve limits of deduction + intuition heuristics - under time pressure and limited memory recall.

It reminds me of the joke in the film, Groundhog Day by Bill Murray's character, Phil Connors:

"Maybe the real God uses tricks. Maybe He's not omnipotent. He's just been around so long, He knows everything."

[kgbpomp]

He didn't just lose he created interest in the game. I play chess now I am also learning GO.

[sao]

First he was no longer young, alphago was great but his first version was more like human, it surprised all of us but the version which played with KeJie made us feel unbreathable.

[kittykat]

now, where is hikaru when we need him the most? xD

[ernstoud]

Spoiler: the answer is not given in this video.

[RPDBY]

about 10 seconds are devoted to answering the question, the rest is just irrelevant rubbish

[charliemendez]

Just like Toya Koyo, he retired from competition but the spirit of playing the game has been rekindled in a new light after being beaten by a superior opponent Sai and in Lee's case AlphaGo. The point of the game is not about winning or greater calculation, but to find meaning and essence behind it, which an a.i. can never grasp.