Can a machine beat a human? That’s what Lee Se-dol, the world champion of the ancient Chinese board game Go, is about to find out.Lee is facing AlphaGo, a computer program built by Google DeepMind, on Wednesday in the first of five games of Go.The stakes are high. If Lee wins, he gets $1 million and reasserts his title as global champ; a loss by the South Korean would signal ...
