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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ais-victories-in-go-inspire-better-human-game-playing/>
"In 2016 a computer named AlphaGo made headlines for defeating then world
champion Lee Sedol at the ancient, popular strategy game Go. The “superhuman”
artificial intelligence, developed by Google DeepMind, lost only one of the
five rounds to Sedol, generating comparisons to Garry Kasparov’s 1997 chess
loss to IBM’s Deep Blue. Go, which involves players facing off by moving black
and white pieces called stones with the goal of occupying territory on the game
board, had been viewed as a more intractable challenge to a machine opponent
than chess.
Much agonizing about the threat of AI to human ingenuity and livelihood
followed AlphaGo’s victory, not unlike what’s happening right now with ChatGPT
and its kin. In a 2016 news conference after the loss, though, a subdued Sedol
offered a comment with a kernel of positivity. “Its style was different, and it
was such an unusual experience that it took time for me to adjust,” he said.
“AlphaGo made me realize that I must study Go more.”
At the time European Go champion Fan Hui, who’d also lost a private round of
five games to AlphaGo months earlier, told
Wired that the matches made him
see the game “completely differently.” This improved his play so much that his
world ranking “skyrocketed,” according to
Wired.
Formally tracking the messy process of human decision-making can be tough. But
a decades-long record of professional Go player moves gave researchers a way to
assess the human strategic response to an AI provocation. A new study now
confirms that Fan Hui’s improvements after facing the AlphaGo challenge weren’t
just a singular fluke. In 2017, after that humbling AI win in 2016, human Go
players gained access to data detailing the moves made by the AI system and, in
a very humanlike way, developed new strategies that led to better-quality
decisions in their game play. A confirmation of the changes in human game play
appear in findings published on March 13 in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences USA."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-global-malaria-lgbtq-warriors-river-albania/>
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https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
