Question 1

True or false: AlphaGo's move 37 in game 2 against Lee Sedol was considered creative and shocked human experts.

Accepted Answer

True. Move 37 was an unprecedented, seemingly suboptimal play that later proved brilliant, surprising even top Go professionals.

Question 2

True or false: AlphaGo's victory over Lee Sedol was the first time a computer beat a human professional at Go.

Accepted Answer

False. Computers had beaten professional Go players before, but AlphaGo was the first to defeat a top-ranked world champion in a full match.

Question 3

True or false: The AlphaGo Zero version defeated the original AlphaGo 100 games to 0 without any human data.

Accepted Answer

True. AlphaGo Zero learned solely through self-play and surpassed the original, which had used human games, by a huge margin.

Question 4

True or false: AlphaGo used a combination of Monte Carlo tree search and two deep neural networks.

Accepted Answer

True. It employed a policy network to suggest moves and a value network to evaluate positions, guided by MCTS.

Question 5

True or false: After retiring from competitive Go, AlphaGo's algorithms were adapted to help solve protein folding with AlphaFold.

Accepted Answer

True. DeepMind reused the reinforcement learning and neural network techniques from AlphaGo to create AlphaFold, a breakthrough in biology.

Question 6

True or false: AlphaGo learned entirely by playing against itself, without using any human game data.

Accepted Answer

False. AlphaGo was initially trained on thousands of human expert games before switching to self-play reinforcement learning.

Question 7

True or false: AlphaGo lost a game to Lee Sedol because of a software bug in its neural network.

Accepted Answer

False. AlphaGo's only loss (game 4) was due to a strategic mistake, not a bug; Lee Sedol's brilliant play exploited a weakness.

Question 8

True or false: AlphaGo needed over 1000 CPUs and GPUs to run during its match against Lee Sedol.

Accepted Answer

False. AlphaGo actually used around 48 TPUs and 176 GPUs, not 1000 CPUs; the number is often exaggerated.

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