Lei Jun, head of the Chinese hi-tech industry flagship Xiaomi, commented on AlphaGo's double victory over one of the world's best go players, Li Sedol, saying that the computer won out because it couldn't give up.
The Xiaomi CEO's comment was published online by TechInAsia. According to Lei Jun, he loves both Go and computers, as he has been writing programs for 10 years. Having praised the quality of the program's rival, Korean player Li Sedol, Jun said that the victory of the computer was still a matter of time. “But I didn't think it would happen so quickly,” the businessman added. He drew attention to the fact that in one of the games Lee Sedol made a purely human error, which allowed AlphaGo to get ahead. However, after that, the person concentrated, attacked and regained his position. “If AlphaGo were human, at this point he would give up. But he was AlphaGo, so he won, "Lei Jun summed up.
The head of Xiaomi noted that many of the go experts who followed the match talked about a lack of understanding of some of the moves made by artificial intelligence. Obviously, this was due to the fact that AlphaGo's strategy is not based on records of already known playing combinations, as it was with the program's predecessors.
“My colleague made an interesting joke today. He said, “It's not scary if AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol. It will be scary if artificial intelligence loses to it on purpose next time,”said Lei Jun.