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BESTED BY A.I. - HE WARNS ALL TO PREPARE. A BOARD game champion regards a shocking loss as a harbinger of a very new era.

'' I am very surprised because I have never thought I would lose, '' Me. Lee Saedol said at the time in a post-match-news conference. '' I didn't know that AlphaGo would play such a perfect Go.''

But the implications of his loss went far beyond the game itself, in which two players compete for territory by placing black and white stones on gridded board made up of 19 lines by 19 lines.

AlphaGo's victory demonstrated the unbridled potential of A.I. to achieve superhuman mastery of skills once considered too complicated for machines.

Mr. Lee was beaten by AlphaGo, an A.I. program developed by Google's DeepMind unit. The stunning upset, in 2016, made headlines around the world and looked like a clear sign that artificial intelligence  was entering a new, profoundly unsettling era.

By besting Mr.Lee, an 18-time world champion revered for his intuitive and creative style of play, AlphaGo had solved one of computer science's greatest challenges : teaching itself the abstract strategy needed to win at Go, widely considered the world's most complex board game.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, he said, changed the very nature of the game that had originated in China more than 2,500 years ago. '' Losing to A.I. in a sense, meant my entire world was collapsing,'' he said in a recent interview with The New York Times.

As society wrestles with what A.I. holds for humanity's future, Mr. Lee is now urging others to avoid being caught unprepared, as he was, and to become familiar with the technology. He delivers lectures  about A.I., trying to give others the advance notice he wishes he had received before his match.

'' I faced the issues of A.I. early, but it will happen for others,'' Mr. Lee said recently at a community education fair in Seoul to a crowd of students and parents. '' It may not be a happy ending.''

Since his loss, Mr.Lee has become an A.I. obsessive of sorts, following with rapt if uneasy attention as artificial intelligence delivers one breakthrough after another.

A.I. has helped chatbots carry on conversations almost indistinguishable from human interaction. It has solved problems that have confounded scientists for decades like predicting protein shapes. 

And it has blurred the lines of creativity by writing music, producing art and generating videos.

Mr. Lee is not a doomsayer. In his view, A.I. may replace some jobs, but it may create some, too. 

When considering A.I.'s grasp of Go, he said it was important to remember that humans had both created the game and designed the A.I. system that mastered it.

But he worries that A.I. may change what humans value. '' People used to be in awe of creativity, originality and innovation,'' he said. '' But since A.I. came, a lot of that has disappeared.''

Go posed a tantalizing challenge for A.I. researchers. The game is vastly more complicated than chess, and it is often said there are more possible positions on a Go board [ 10 with more than 100 zeros after it, according to many mathematical estimates ] than there are atoms in the universe.

The breakthrough came from DeepMind, which built AlphaGo using so called neural networks :  mathematical systems that can learn skills by analyzing enormous amounts of data.

It started by feeding the network 30 million moves from high-level players. Then the programs played game after game against itself until it learned which moves were successful and developed new strategies.

AlphaGo's victory '' was a watershed moment in the history of A.I.,'' said Demis Hassabis, DeepMind's chief executive, in a written statement. It showed what computers that learn on their own from data '' were really capable of,'' he said.

Mr. Lee had a hard time accepting the defeat. What he regarded as an art form, an extension of a player's own personality and style, was now cast aside for an algorithm's ruthless efficiency.

'' I could no longer enjoy the game, '' he said. '' So I retired.''

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