Lee Sedol attends an event marking the 10th anniversary of his AlphaGo match at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul on March 9. Photo by Asia Today
March 9 (Asia Today) — Go champion Lee Sedol returned Sunday to the site of his historic 2016 match against AlphaGo, but this time to work with artificial intelligence instead of competing against it.
At an event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, enterprise AI startup Enhans demonstrated what it called the “future of Go,” showing how Lee could use an AI operating system to help design and rebuild a Go model in real time through voice commands. The event was held at the same venue, on the same date, as the opening of Lee’s match against AlphaGo 10 years earlier.
“Ten years ago, I competed against AI, but now we are moving forward through collaboration,” Lee said, according to Asia Today. He said he views recent AI advances positively because they make it easier to create new things more quickly.
Lee said human players can no longer realistically expect to beat top AI systems at Go and recalled that even during the 2016 match he felt he would be unable to win no matter what move he chose. Still, he said human Go would continue to evolve because people bring personality, memory and lived experience to the game in ways AI does not.
During the demonstration, Lee used spoken instructions to direct a multi-agent AI system that divided tasks such as web searching, planning and coding. He said the most striking part was not that AI could play Go well, but that the system could also act as a “teacher” inside the AI platform.
Enhans said the event was meant to show a shift in the meaning of AI – from rival to collaborator. The company said key functions including web search, shopping, planning, design and coding are already at a practical stage and could be integrated into a broader commerce-focused AI operating system.
The event’s official sponsors included Anthropic, Nvidia and Microsoft, according to Asia Today and Enhans.
Lee said Enhans’ agentic AI had become “the most reliable assistant” in turning imagination into reality.
“AI should now be defined not as an opponent, but as a tool that helps humans show greater creativity,” he said.
— Reported by Asia Today; translated by UPI
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