No Human Being Can Beat Google s AlphaGo, and It's a Good Thing

South Korean Go master Lee Se-Dol recently announced his retirement from professional Go competition. He felt that no matter how hard he tries, he will never beat AI Go players like AlphaGo. It is a rather sad decision and development of his historical defeat in competition with Google DeepMind's AlphaGo. It gives the whole thing a more dramatic tone than it should be. However, the defeat of human Go players to AI is neither the end of the world for the Go game nor for the human players.