Move78 · my own projects

Move78: what I build for myself.

Game 4 · Seoul, 2016

In 2016, AlphaGo had beaten Lee Sedol three games in a row. In the fourth game, on move 78, he played a stone so unexpected, so out of the distribution, that it sent the machine into a spiral and lost the game.

Later it came out that AlphaGo had given that move a 1 in 10,000 chance of being played. Commentators thought it was a mistake. It turned out to be a brilliant insight: inspiration, the result of a lifetime of training.

The name

To me, move 78 is the spark of human brilliance that AI can't equal, so that's what I named the things I build for myself after. Some are live, some are experiments.

1 in 10,000the odds a human plays move 78, by AlphaGo's count
10,000 cells · one per game from that positionone plays move 78