> It would be surprising if AlphaGo hadn't be trained on historic matches with Lee giving him an early edge until Lee can adapt.
This kind of learning doesn't work like that. It doesn't learn from specific examples, or make meaningful inferences from single data points. It learns tiny gradients from millions of examples. If we had an approach that could create a meaningfully distinct strategy depending on {whether we included or excluded {every game Lee Sedol has played in his life} from training}, that would be wildly more significant than just beating him.
This kind of learning doesn't work like that. It doesn't learn from specific examples, or make meaningful inferences from single data points. It learns tiny gradients from millions of examples. If we had an approach that could create a meaningfully distinct strategy depending on {whether we included or excluded {every game Lee Sedol has played in his life} from training}, that would be wildly more significant than just beating him.