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[theweaselking]

Google's AlphaGo program has been granted an honorary 9th dan Go grandmaster rank - the first honorary professional rank, ever.

(Normally to get a professional rank you must participate in tournaments. Deepmind beats 9th dan grandmasters; it would be frankly unfair to stick it in first dan qualifying tournaments, or anything else on the way up to earn a "real" professional rank.)

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[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

Still wildly uncompetitive on a per-joule basis.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/another-way-of-looking-at-lee-sedol-vs-alphago

(That will change in a few years.)