I love the spirit with which the Baduk Association, and human Go players in general are taking this. A spirit of competition and respect. To think that, in defeat, an organisation of a human game thousands of years old would award their highest honorary title to an AI? Bodes well for human/machine relations. Perhaps we will see them more as precocious and gifted children, than competetors, in who's strong arms we shall be protected later in life :)
In Korea they also started using the equivalent of Sensei to refer to the AI after game 3 (or 2, not sure). A friend of mine lived there for a while, playing a lot of go with professionals (taught English, learnt Korean and worked remotely) so he knows the vibe there for that.
