Ke Jie, the world’s top Go player as I write this, just lost three games in a row to to the computer program named AlphaGo. I am not personally capable of evaluating such play, but apparently Ke Jie’s play was considered to be at the very highest level.
Here are the most popular comments on Chinese social media about this.
You lost and you cried. The machine won, but it didn’t smile. — 27368 likes
He is already an excellent player for being the world top 1 at the age of 16. Today he really had the burden of fighting with AI as the representative of humankind. AlphaGo has huge capacity and never stops fixing and upgrading itself. This isn’t meant to be a fair competition from the beginning. Some time ago Ke Jie said he could won AlphaGo but that was before it evolved in the past months. — 14111 likes
This isn’t the failure of Ke Jie, it is the failure of mankind. At the same time, this isn’t the success of AI, but the success of mankind. — 11635 likes
Yesterday our teacher just told us that people invented cars years ago but never expected to run faster than them. — 7436 likes
You have such beautiful (elegant) hands, and they’re not fitting for wiping tears. — 5898 likes
Ke Jie didn’t cry for himself, but for every hard training Go player in this world, for the fact that we couldn’t do any better in front of AI. It might be old but I still would like to say that, Ke Jie already won when he shed his tears. — unknown number of likes