South Korean Lee Sedol world champion board game "go", today achieved its first victory against artificial intelligence AlphaGo of Google in the fourth of five items of human-machine challenge the so-called "oriental chess".
In the fourth game played in a downtown hotel in Seoul, Lee, 32, he managed to break the three-game losing streak against AlphaGo after beating 180 program movements after almost 4 hours and 44 minutes of departure.
In the absence of the last meeting held on Tuesday, the result is 3-1 in favor of AlphaGo, so technically it the winner of the challenge facing the world number one considered the "go" having won 18 events international.
The best of five games will receive a prize of one million dollars, Google announced that it will donate to UNICEF in case of winning.
The new challenge of machine against human has been two decades after the famous games of the supercomputer Deep Blue against the genius of Russian chess Gary Kasparov in 1996 and 1997, and has attracted huge media attention in South Korea, where " go "is a very popular game and is known as" Baduk ".