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This post reflects on the 10th anniversary of AlphaGo's historic victory over Go world champion Lee Sae Dol and its lasting impact on AI and science.
•AlphaGo defeated Lee Sae Dol in 2016 using deep neural networks, reinforcement learning, and advanced search, reaching a milestone a decade earlier than experts predicted
•'Move 37' in Game 2 demonstrated AI's capacity to devise strategies beyond human expertise, influencing 200 million viewers worldwide
•AlphaGo's techniques evolved into AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero, which mastered Go, chess, and shogi from scratch with no prior knowledge
•AlphaFold 2 applied the same approach to solve the 50-year protein folding problem; its open database is now used by over 3 million researchers
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AlphaGo's architecture has since been extended to mathematical reasoning (IMO silver medal via AlphaProof), algorithm discovery (AlphaEvolve), and AI-assisted scientific collaboration
•DeepMind believes combining Gemini's world models with AlphaGo's searc
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