Fan Hui is a Chinese-born French professional Go player born in 1981 in Xian who turned professional in 1996 and holds the 2 dan rank. He won the European Go Championship in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the European Professional Go Championship in 2016, and became coach of the French national Go team in 2005 after relocating to France in 2000. In October 2015 he lost 5 to 0 to Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program, the first time an artificial intelligence had beaten a human professional Go player without a handicap, and he later joined the AlphaGo team as an advisor, judged the AlphaGo match against Lee Sedol, and co-authored DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero paper published in Nature in October 2017.
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Career HighlightWas defeated 5 to 0 by Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program in October 2015, the first time an artificial intelligence program beat a human professional Go player without a handicap. 1 Classification
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Was Fan Hui the only professional AlphaGo played in public matches?
No. Lee Sedol was next: AlphaGo won 4 to 1 in March 2016.
No. DeepMind describes the October 2015 match against Fan Hui, then the reigning three-time European champion, as AlphaGo's first game against a Go professional, which it won 5 to 0. AlphaGo then played Lee Sedol, a winner of 18 world titles, and won 4 to 1 in Seoul in March 2016. DeepMind says over 200 million people worldwide watched that second match.
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Fan Hui (Chinese: 樊麾; pinyin: Fán Huī; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player.
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In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program AlphaGo 5-0, the first time an AI has beaten a human professional player at the game without a handicap.
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In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program AlphaGo 5-0, the first time an AI has beaten a human professional player at the game without a handicap.
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In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program AlphaGo 5-0, the first time an AI has beaten a human professional player at the game without a handicap.
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In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program AlphaGo 5-0, the first time an AI has beaten a human professional player at the game without a handicap.
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Fan Hui (Chinese: 樊麾; pinyin: Fán Huī; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player.
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is a Chinese-born French Go player.
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