Claim · 2016-03-16 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Hassabis (16 March 2016) states that AlphaGo won four of the five games of its match with Lee Sedol in Seoul.

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What it connects

What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo → states provision → AlphaGo won four of the five games against Lee Sedol in Seoul.

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Claim and evidence

What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGostates provision ↓AlphaGo won four of the five games against Lee Sedol in Seoul.

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Statement · provision ID tl-alphago-seoul-2016
Date: 2016-03-16 · publication Records dated 2016 →

Scope and limitsThe publisher-side account (DeepMind's chief executive on Google's blog); the post does not give the dates of the five games.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo

Google (The Keyword blog) · 2016-03-16

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Source excerpt

“The ultimate challenge was for AlphaGo to take on the best Go player of the past decade—Lee Sedol.”

Location in source post body, paragraphs 1-2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Demis Hassabis
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 98c2537c92f1ff4ed4449db365f82b9c0c2335f4b043967097d6c7ef927d9334). Current blog.google page (redirected from the 2016 address); not an authenticated historical capture
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Demis Hassabis, “What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo”, 2016-03-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (18 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo

Google (The Keyword blog) · 2016-03-16

Cite the original source

Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Source excerpt

“To everyone's surprise, including ours, AlphaGo won four of the five games.”

Location in source post body, paragraph 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Demis Hassabis
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 98c2537c92f1ff4ed4449db365f82b9c0c2335f4b043967097d6c7ef927d9334). Current blog.google page (redirected from the 2016 address); not an authenticated historical capture
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Demis Hassabis, “What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo”, 2016-03-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (12 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Dated by the text that states it, 16 March 2016. The statement reports March 2016: The post is dated 2016-03-16 and refers to "the last 10 days in Seoul"; the match days are not stated in the post.

Record ID th-tl-alphago-seoul-2016