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The AlphaGo Moment:

How Google’s superhuman AI conquered the world’s hardest game

Wednesday 
August 
29
, 
2018
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6:00pm

Hosted by Accel Partners and Ubiquity Ventures

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What is the AlphaGo Moment?

Join us as we explore the AlphaGo Moment, when Google’s superhuman AI conquered the world’s hardest game. 


Our speaker Hajin Lee served as World Go Champion Lee Sedol’s official liaison during the historic Go match between Google Deepmind's AlphaGo and Lee Sedol in 2016.  Hajin, who is a ranked professional Go player herself) will speak about Go culture and the AlphaGo competition.  Next, Dan Maas will dissect how the AlphaGo program works, how it compares to IBM’s DeepBlue chess-playing program from 2 decades ago, and more.

 

The AlphaGo Moment

In March of 2016, the world changed: a software program developed by Google defeated the world’s champion player of Go.  The game of Go is considered by many to be one of the most complex and nuanced games: compared to chess, there are 1,000 times as many moves at each moment.  Go has its origins in Asia and has been played continuously for at least 3,000 years with a strong culture of training and competition. Against this backdrop, Google’s DeepMind used a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning to tackle the game of Go.  


In 2014, the best Go program could only play at an amateur level. Just 2 years later, Google DeepMind had grown so confident about their new Go program, named “AlphaGo”, that they challenged 18-time world Go champion Lee Sedol to a 5-game match in March 2016. AlphaGo prevailed in 2016 winning the match 4-1.  Then one year later, Google’s DeepMind developed a new Go program called AlphaGo Zero that trains by playing itself, with no input from human Go experts. After only 3 days, it achieved a level where it can beat the 2016 version of AlphaGo 100-0. We live in exciting times.

The Speakers

Hajin Lee

Official Liaison to Go Champion Lee Sedol

Hajin was ranked among the top professional female Go players as a teenager in Korea. Later, while working at the International Go Federation, Hajin was the official liaison between Google and Lee Sedol during the AlphaGo matches in Seoul. Now conquering new challenges as a software developer in Mountain View.

Dan Maas

AI Expert

Dan is an entrepreneur, cloud technology expert, and AI enthusiast. Dan built the world's most advanced HTML5 massively-multiplayer game engine as CTO of Battlehouse, a YC startup. He is currently pursuing new opportunities in devops automation and cybersecurity.

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Our event will be held on the rooftop of Accel's new Palo Alto office. 

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Schedule

6:00pm –

Networking with drinks and appetizers


7:00pm –

Presentation on the game of Go, Go culture, and the impact of the AlphaGo competition

Hajin Lee, Official Liaison to 18-time World Go Champion Lee Sedol

7:30pm –

Q&A on how AlphaGo and Deep Learning works

Dan Maas, AI Expert

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"From the very beginning of the game, there was not a moment in time when I felt that I was leading."

– Lee Sedol, World Go Champion

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