An Overview of Deep Learning for Curious People

Lilian Weng · 9 years ago

AlphaGo defeated professional Go player Lee Sedol 4-1 in 2016, demonstrating deep learning's ability to master a game previously thought computationally intractable due to its exponential complexity compared to chess. The match occurred in 2016 and involved a nine-dan ranked world champion losing to the AI system. The victory generated significant public attention to artificial intelligence and deep learning research.