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Originally Posted by LetterRip
By the way, I'm one of the few people that actually predicted the outcome before the first game (I figured that Lee might get lucky once).
It was around 50/50 split of who people thought would win, alphago was actually favored by the betting markets. Not exactly a unique prediction there.
If you made it through mathematically modeling extrapolation data, that could be a bit impressive, but most people's predictions weren't much more sophisticated than "I remember deep blue beat kasparov." Only DeepMind actually had the information available to make a good estimate of the result.
