DeepMind’s AlphaGo supercomputer faced 18-time world Go champion Lee Sedol in Seoul, South Korea, achieving a historic 4-1 victory in a five-game match watched by 280 million people. Operating across a distributed cloud network of 1,920 CPUs and 280 GPUs, AlphaGo combined deep convolutional neural networks with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to discover highly unconventional, creative moves (such as the legendary Move 37 in Game 2) that permanently shattered the belief that intuition was an exclusively human trait.
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