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Comparing the top player's ELO with Zero's ELO (assuming numbers are accurate, etc):

Your rating: 3664

Opponent's rating: 5000

Probability of winning: 0.000456879355457417

So 1 in 2,200 games... ouch

I don't think you can apply this to alphago. I think probability for a human to beat alphago now is zero.

Lee Sedol's single victory is the first and the last.

I disagree. This is precisely what the ELO predicts, and it has been pretty accurate over time - it's a good metric.

For humans yes. For humans against machines? I don't think so. Can any human beat a modern chess computer? The chance is zero.

Zero means zero, yes?

Alpha particles can flip bits and cause erratic behavior, can they not?

"[The probability of] at least one bit error in 4 gigabytes of memory at sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95%"

Oh hey maybe they use ECC? Are we really arguing this? Pedantry on a weird level.