Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google DeepMind, reunited Wednesday with South Korea's legendary baduk player Lee Sedol, who went up against the company's AlphaGo AI in a legendary human-versus-machine match 10 years ago.
"It's great to be back here kind of the center of where it all started" Hassabis said at the event held by Google in central Seoul, saying that the historic five-game match "signaled the beginning of these incredible advances that happened in the last decade."
When asked about the Lee-AlphaGo match in 2016, the Google executive pointed to the AI's move 37 as the "most incredible moment" that demonstrated that AI can show creativity.
During game two of the 2016 match, AlphaGo made an unconventional shoulder hit on the fifth line for its 37th move, widely considered a pivotal move that secured its victory against Lee.
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