Chang-Shing Lee · IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2016 · Narrative review and expert commentary · n=3 commentators (evaluating 5 games)

Human vs. Computer Go: Review and Prospect [Discussion Forum]

Cited 40 times in the scientific literature.

Level 5 - mechanism / opinion, no new human data

By design analogy: narrative review, discussion forum, and qualitative expert commentary with no clinical or experimental trial data.

OpenAlex W2414015145 · doi:10.1109/mci.2016.2572559 · record verified 2026-08-29

What was done

The authors reviewed the historical milestones in computer Go development from 1998 to 2016, surveyed competitive Go programs from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society competitions, described the computational intelligence techniques used in AlphaGo, and compiled commentaries from three high-level professional Go players on the five AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol games in March 2016.

What was found

The abstract reports no quantitative performance metrics, game outcome counts, or statistical analyses. It provides a qualitative narrative of computer Go milestones leading to AlphaGo's match against Lee Sedol and summarizes professional Go players' commentaries.

Why it matters

The paper captures the technical developments in computational intelligence leading to AlphaGo's milestone performance and contextualizes machine capability through the perspective of elite human players.

Limits

This is an expert commentary and narrative review rather than a systematic review or controlled experimental trial. The evaluations are qualitative, based on a single five-game match, and provide no formal statistical metrics in the abstract.

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