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Google DeepMind Challenge Match - Lee Sedol v AlphaGo - media mentions

29/10/16
- Channel 4 "How to Build a Human": Demis Hassabis talks to Gemma Chan on AlphaGo and AI
28/06/16
- Guardian: AlphaGo taught itself how to win, but without humans it would have run out of time
14/05/16
- Telegraph Magazine: article by Madhumita Murgia on match and AI implications
25/03/16
- Financial Times: AI progress fails to convince all investors
22/03/16
- Huffington Post UK: Artificial Intelligence - The Fourth Revolution?
- Daily Telegraph online: Defeated Go grandmaster wants a rematch against computer
- Independent online: Defeated Go champion Lee Sedol wants a rematch against AlphaGo
21/03/16
- Financial Times: Machines use their own intelligence not ours
- Financial Times online: AlphaGo marks stark difference between AI and human intelligence
18/03/16
- Guardian: How much should we fear the rise of artificial intellengence?
- Daily Mail online: Google's historic win over Go world champion proves AI can be 'unpredictable and immoral' leading expert warns
- Nature online: South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'
16/03/16
- New Scientist leader: Time to raise the game - online version What game should artificial intelligence take on next
- New Scientist: Machine outsmarts man in battle of the decade - online version Humans strike back: How Lee Sedol won a game against AlphaGo
- New Scientist: Google victory at Go stokes AI fear in Korea - online version: How victory for Google’s Go AI is stoking fear in South Korea + A machine's hand (sidebar interview with Aja Huang)
- New Scientist: Anything you can do… - online version: Machines are teaching themselves to grapple with the real world
- Guardian: Google AI defeats Go master to win series 4-1
- Independent online: DeepMind's AlphaGo beat Lee Se-dol, but it's a long way from being human
15/03/16
- Economist online: Google’s DeepMind has beaten a human Go grandmaster, 4-1
- Guardian: The computer that learns by thinking
- Guardian online: Sour grapes at Facebook over Google's AI victory
- Guardian online: The NHS is a much bigger challenge for DeepMind than Go
- Telegraph online: Google's AlphaGo wins final Go challenge against Lee Se-dol
- Business Insider UK: AI 4 Human 1: Google DeepMind beats Go champion Lee Sedol in a tense final game
- Independent online: Google DeepMind computer beats Go champion Lee Se-dol in shock 4-1 victory
- Nature: What Google’s winning Go algorithm will do next
- Nature online blog: The Go Files: AI computer wraps up 4-1 victory against human champion
- BBC News at Ten: Lee Sedol loses match and implications regarding AI (28:15 in)
- BBC online: Google's AI wins final Go challenge
- Daily Mail online: Google's AlphaGo gets 'divine' Go ranking: AI system is awarded highest grandmaster level after its victory against Lee Sedol
- Daily Mail online: Human Go champ says machine not superior despite 1:4 defeat
- Daily Mail online: Game over! AlphaGo takes the final victory against Go champion Lee Sedol to finish the $1 million contest 4-1
- Financial Times online: AlphaGo conquers Korean grandmaster Lee Se-dol
- Financial Times online: Alphago wraps up the 5-game series with a win
14/03/16
- The Register online: Why should you care about Google's AI winning a board game?
- Financial Times: Champion finally passes Go to collect first victory against Google computer
- Times: Man restores pride in losing battle with machine
- Times online: Champ wins back some pride in test of man v machine
- Guardian: Go figure: human champion demonstrates that AI program is not invincible after all
- Daily Telegraph: Eric Schmidt's Alphabet starts with AI and will touch millions
- i: Human defeats Go supercomputer
- Daily Mail online: Humans strike back: Go champion scores first win against Google's AlphaGo computer, but the AI program takes the $1 million prize after three victories in a row
- Sky News: Interview with Toby Manning (at 15:3ish)
- BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show: piece on Go and match with Francis Roads (at 13:40, 1:40 in) with phone call from Peter Clinch of Dundee Go Club
- BBC Radio 4 Today - Interview with Demis Hassabis (at 08:21, 2:21:30 in)
- BBC online: Google AI chief 'pleased' after first Go loss
- New Scientist online: Humans strike back: How Lee Sedol won a game against AlphaGo
13/03/16
- Business Insider UK online: Humanity's best Go player finally beat Google's DeepMind computer for the first time
- Financial Times online: Go champion notches first victory against Google computer
- Sunday Times: All systems Go for the robot takeover
- Sunday Telegraph: Three straight victories for computer over Go champion
- Observer: Go champion throws in towel as computer sweeps the board
- Observer Comment: The momentous advance in artificial intelligence demands a new set of ethics
12/03/16
- Nature blog: The Go Files: AI computer clinches victory against Go champion
- BBC 1 Weekend News: report on 10:25 news programme
- Guardian online: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol in third consecutive Go game
- Financial Times: Master of the new machine age
- Telegraph online: AlphaGo's victory is shocking, but we must believe it will be used for good
- Times online: Computer programme defeats human Go champion 3-0
- Independent online: Google DeepMind's AlphaGo computer beats top player Lee Sedol for third time to sweep competition
- New Scientist: All systems Go - note that match is happening
- Economist: Showdown (Artificial intelligence and Go)
- Economist: Short news article and leader: The future of computing
- BBC World TV: Interview with Francis Roads (14:00 bulletin)
- BBC online: Artificial intelligence: Google's AlphaGo beats Go master Lee Se-dol
- BBC Radio 4 Today - Discussion of result and AI implications (at 08:54, 1:54:00 in)
11/03/16
- BBC Radio 4 Now Show - comedy review of match and AI interview (at 19:05 minutes)
- Economist online: Showdown Win or lose, a computer program’s contest against a professional Go player is another milestone in AI
- Guardian online: AlphaGo wins second game against champion
- Financial Times online: Google DeepMind computer beats human grandmaster again
- Financial Times online: DeepMind’s Go victory could herald step change in AI
- Financial Times online: Demis Hassabis, master of the new machine age
- Telegraph online: What Google's grand Go victory means: Technology is about to get a lot smarter
- Times: Time to put these robots in their place (by Ben Macintyre)
- Metro: Computer beats Go champ again
10/03/16
- Business Insider UK: ROUND TWO: Google's DeepMind AI just beat a human Go champion for a second time
- Guardian online: Google's AlphaGo wins second game against Go champion
- Financial Times leader: Today a board game; tomorrow the world
- Financial Times: Passing Go - AI milestone as Google beats champ
- Financial Times podcast: Google’s DeepMind wins at Go
- Financial Times online: DeepMind’s Go victory could herald step change in AI
- Daily Telegraph leader: All systems go
- Financial Times online: Google DeepMind computer beats Go grandmaster again
- Daily Telegraph: Computer beats champion at game based on 'intuition'
- Independent: New breakthrough in AI as computer vanquishes world's 'Go' champion
- Independent online: Google's Go computer beats human competitor to go 2-0 up and one game away from huge AI breakthrough
- i: Lee Sedol, Go Champion
- Times leader: Computer Says Go
- Times: Go Go gadget! Computer beats top player
- Daily Mail online: Now it's 2-0 to AlphaGo! Google's DeepMind computer takes the second victory against Lee Sedol - and if it wins the third match, it takes the $1 million prize
- Daily Mail: Computer beats board game champ
- Guardian leader: Machines can't feel, but people will certainly feel their effect
- Guardian: Go figure - AI program beats champion in board game first
- Guardian 3: Pass notes No 3,642 Go
- Metro: report on first game
09/03/16
- The Register online: Go No! Google cyber-brain bests top-ranked human in ancient game
- Telegraph online: Google's DeepMind AI makes history by defeating Go champion Lee Se-dol
- Times online: Computer says no: Go champion loses in man v machine
- Financial Times online: Google computer beats world champion of Chinese board game Go
- Independent online: Google Deepmind artificial intelligence beats world's best Go player Lee Sedol in landmark game
- Mirror online: Watch LIVE as Google's artificial intelligence machine attempts to beat professional 'Go' player at his own game
- Mirror online: Google's artificial intelligence engine beats legendary Go player Lee Sedol in historic victory
- Nature blog: The Go Files: AI computer wins first match against master Go player
- Business Insider UK: 'WE MADE HISTORY': Google's DeepMind AI just beat a human world champion at Go
- BBC World Service: AI v Humans with Kyohiko Tanaka (at 27:00)
- BBC Radio Wales: Good Evening Wales interview with Dylan Carter (at 26:00)
- BBC News: Google’s AI beats world Go champion in first of five matches
- Cambridge 105: Interview with Andrew Simons, British Champion
- BBC Radio 4 Today: News report on AlphaGo win (eg at about 08:09)
- BBC Radio Wales: Jon Diamond interviewed at about 07:50
- BBC Radio 4 Today: Natasha Regan interviewed at about 07:25 (01:25:00 in)
- Daily Mail online: It's 1-0 to AlphaGo!
- Guardian online: Google's AlphaGo AI defeats human in first game of Go contest Video
08/03/16
- BBC Radio 5 Live: Jon Diamond interviewed at 10:55:56am
- Guardian: It's tougher than chess. So can a computer beat humanity's best at Go?
- Financial Times: Google takes on Go grandmaster in AI test
- 08/03/16 Daily Mail online: 'I'm nervous...it's inevitable AI will defeat us': Go champ admits he's anxious about his upcoming match with Google's AlphaGo
07/03/16
- Sky News digital view: Google DeepMind and the GO champion challenge
- BBC News: Google AI takes on the world's Go champion
- Nature blog: The Go Files: ‘Humanity-packed’ AI prepares to take on world champion
- Guardian online: Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'
- Daily Mail online: The countdown is on! Google's DeepMind will take on Go world champion this week for the chance of winning $1 million
03/03/16 BBC TV Newsnight: Artificial Intelligence breakthrough (at 24 mins)
02/03/16 New Scientist: print title "Game changers", online Garry Kasparov weighs up AI challenge to world’s best Go player
29/02/16 Evening Standard online: All systems Go as London leads the world in artificial intelligence
22/02/16
- Daily Mail online: Humans will win (for now): Korean Go champion says he is 'certain' he'll beat Google's AI at ancient Chinese game - but admits in a year the result might be different
- Guardian online: Google throws down the gauntlet. But can anyone beat its computer at Go?
16/02/16 Guardian online: The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check?
05/02/16
- Mirror online: Google prepares to pit its artificial intelligence software against champion of 'world's most difficult board game'
- BBC News: Google AI to play live Go match against world champion
- PC Magazine: Google to Livestream 'Go' Battle Between World Champ, AI Tech
- Daily Mail online: Google's artificial intelligence software to take on Go world champion in million dollar man vs machine contest
- Guardian: Google’s AI AlphaGo to take on world No 1 Lee Se-dol in live broadcast
02/02/16 BBC Blog: The Vocabularist: What's the root of the word computer?
31/01/16 Observer: Guardian online Can Google’s AlphaGo really feel it in its algorithms?
30/01/16
- Economist: Computer says Go, Beating a Go champion with machine learning
- New Scientist: AI is going for Go - online version: AI landmark as Googlebot beats top human at ancient game of Go
- Independent: Beaten but not broken: how AI can teach us to be better game players, Machine beating man at a game of Go should not be seen as a loss but a training aid, says chess grandmaster - also online: Top professional Lee Sedol prepares to play computer in Go showdown
- Times online: World of Go waits for play-off with machine
28/01/16
- Independent: Go figure: computer triumphs in ancient game marks giant leap for AI - Also online: Google AlphaGo computer beats professional at 'world's most complex board game' Go
- i: Computer says 'Go' as machine wins for first time
- Times: Computer teaches itself to master the world's most complicated game - (Also believed online article in technology/games section for subscribers only)
- Guardian: All systems Go in a win for artificial intellegence - Also online: Google AI in landmark victory over Go grandmaster
- Daily Telegraph : Robot wins mind game by playing like a human - Also online: Google's machine beats master at ancient game of Go in historic AI breakthrough
- Daily Mail: Maestro is thrashed by computer at hardest game - Also online: Artificial intelligence breakthrough as Google's software beats grandmaster of Go, the 'most complex game ever devised'
27/01/16
- The Register (online): Google DeepMind cyber-brain cracks tough AI challenge: Beating a top Go board-game player
- Financial Times: Google computer triumphs in complex board game battle
- DeepMind YouTube: Google DeepMind: Ground-breaking AlphaGo masters the game of Go
- BBC News
  - News at Six/Ten: 2:50 minute report which included all of the first clip and some of the third clip in the following item:
  - BBC News: Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
  - BBC News:- Facebook trains AI to beat humans at Go board game - another current computer Go project
  - BBC News:- Weekly Technology Review story on AlphaGo and Interview with Demis Hassabis
- BBC Radio
  - Radio 4: Six O'Clock News 23:45 minutes in
  - Radio 4: The World Tonight 34:36 minutes in Charles Leedham-Green interviewed about Go and AI breakthrough
- Nature:
  - Google AI algorithm masters ancient game of Go includes excellent video
  - Go players react to computer defeat
  - Technical paper - Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
  - Weekly podcast for 28-01-2016

There have also been stories in various other places (35,000 according to Demis Hassabis), including:
Wired online: In two moves AlphaGo and Lee Sedol refdefined the future,
American Go Ejournal - Game Over? AlphaGo Beats Pro 5-0 in Major AI Advance,
Bloomberg, The Economic Times (India), Fortune, Science, USA Today, ZDNet and a Smithsonian publication.

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