Although there are still four games to play against Lee Sedol, it was recently reported that AlphaGo beat European ... event has been covered: machine beats man. Does it matter?

ran its "AlphaGo" algorithm on multiple machines to get the performance it needed to outsmart world number one Lee Sedol. Altogether, DeepMind used 1,202 CPUs and 176 GPUs, according to a paper in ...