Pedro Domingos: 'AlphaGo didn't beat Lee Sedol — the humans who built it did'
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-09
ML researcher Pedro Domingos posted: 'AlphaGo did not beat Lee Sedol. The humans who built AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol.' The quip credits AlphaGo's landmark victory to its engineers rather than the AI itself, a contrarian framing likely to spark debate about where credit for AI achievements belongs.
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