Almost everyone is now about to feel what Lee Sedol felt a decade ago.

We are all Lee Sedol.

flyingshelf 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t think it's the same at all. Nobody is interested in watching computers play against each other, so he still can do what he loves. He didn't suddenly have to work with/through machines now.

	▲	jaggederest 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He quit playing...

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suprjami 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't immediately get the reference. He is the Korean Go player who lost to AlphaGo in 2016.

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hackernud3s 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Why not Kasparov when he lost to Deep Blue though?

	▲	jodrellblank 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why not Goliath when he lost to David's new-fangled technology? Wikipedia[1] says Deep Blue had 30x 120Mhz CPUs and 480 custom VLSI chess chips, and could do 11 GFLOPS. HN[2] says that's roughly an iPhone 5s. Wikipedia[2] says 11 GFLOPS of compute power cost about half a billion inflation-adjusted dollars in the mid 1980s when the Deep Blue project was started; cost about half a million in 1996 when it was playing Kasparov; costs about 12 cents today. (Of course it's daft to compare custom chess chips and CPUs and GPUs, supercomputers and mobile SoCs, but it'll do). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626731 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point_operations_per_...