That nice old-fashioned French saying designates a situation in which failure is just around the corner. And that's the current situation of the Korean Go player
Lee Sedol in his match against an
AI (artificial intelligence) known as
AlphaGo. In the following photo, Lee is on the right, whereas the fellow in front of him has the job of carrying out the moves requested by the AI opponent.
Well, after two matches, the AI has defeated Lee Sedol in both games. So, the AI only needs to clinch one more game to win the tournament.
Needless to say (although I insist upon making this point, without attempting to go into details), this man/machine competition is more exciting and intellectually meaningful than the recent competitions involving a question-answering AI from IBM known as
Watson.
