Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 459 Under One Person

"Yi Zheng's chess moves today are completely different from those on the first and second days."

He was clearly much more relaxed today, showcasing his incredible strength as the world's number one player, and also highlighting the gap between humans and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence still has a long way to go before it can catch up with the world's number one player.

Overall, I feel that Yi Zheng underestimated the strength of artificial intelligence on the first day, was too careless, and thought he could easily defeat his opponent. In fact, although the gap was large, being too complacent can easily lead to failure.

Yi Zheng's lack of effort led to a disadvantageous situation, eventually reaching a point where we thought victory was impossible. However, Yi Zheng is Yi Zheng; he can always create miracles that no one else can. After adjusting, he quickly recovered and defeated the artificial intelligence.

In the second game, Yi Zheng learned from the first game's mistakes. Although he remained cautious, he didn't make any mistakes and maintained a firm advantage throughout the game, giving the AI ​​no chance whatsoever.

Furthermore, it puts artificial intelligence to the test through various complex situations, including numerous life-and-death problems, which can be said to have added a lot of lessons for Go students. The second game perfectly demonstrated the wisdom of human Go.

Through the first two games, Yi Zheng had a full understanding of the upper limit of artificial intelligence's strength and knew that there was a big gap between artificial intelligence's strength and his own. He had no psychological burden at all, so in the third game, Yi Zheng was obviously playing with a light heart. What we are seeing now is the complete Yi Zheng.

Judging from his performance in this game, the artificial intelligence was no match for Yi Zheng. Yi Zheng played very freely and skillfully, leaving the artificial intelligence completely bewildered.

From the very beginning, they've been using all sorts of tricks to create soldiers from beans, and now they're treating artificial intelligence like a dog, completely bewildering it. I reckon the AI ​​is totally confused by now; if I were in their shoes, I'd be confused too.

Looking at the situation on the chessboard in the third game, Shen Guhong couldn't help but start commenting. Yi Zheng's situation was really too special, so he was behaving very strangely.

People off the field can only deduce the process from the results and explain Yi Zheng's performance in these games through various speculations.

Take Li Junhe, who is watching the game right now, for example. He feels like his head is about to explode. Yi Zheng seems to have turned into AlphaGo again in this game, and he is an extremely elegant AlphaGo. One game is a coincidence, but it can't be the same for two games.

However, many professional players believe that Yi Zheng is simply trying out different styles.

This is also why Yi Zheng never comes out to explain; as the world's number one, no matter what he does, others will fill in the blanks themselves.

Moreover, their interpretations are often more plausible than their own explanations.

"The prize money this time is also very high, far exceeding the highest level of world Go competitions, and it has a completely different meaning."

Although many professional players still underestimate artificial intelligence, believing that Yi Zheng's slightly poor performance in the first game was due to his unfamiliarity with AI, the truth is that AI is not that strong.

However, in my opinion, artificial intelligence has already reached at least the level of a professional ninth dan or even a world champion, which is a level that is completely beyond our expectations.

If I were playing the game now, I'm only confident I could win one or two games out of the five-game match.

Before this, even AI programs with professional-level Go skills were extremely rare.

Shen Guhong had a relatively high opinion of artificial intelligence, but even so, he was still very confident that he could win, at least one or two games.

After all, we're all defeated by Yi Zheng. How much stronger can you be than me?

Even some high-level professionals in other fields have a very low opinion of artificial intelligence, believing that while it seems promising, its actual capabilities are just so-so. "I could do that too!"
After all, the prize money for Yi Zheng's competition was extremely high, even more than many ordinary professionals could earn in a lifetime.

No matter the industry, the top 1% earn 99% of the profits. Some less skilled professional players may even have to pay others to work in various competitions.

After all, if you're eliminated in the first round, the match fee you receive might not even cover your travel expenses.

Faced with such a high bonus, it's inevitable that some people will be envious, thinking that they might also be able to earn it, and even completely forgetting that only a business with Yizheng's commercial value could possibly earn such a bonus.

Even if you participated in an ordinary profession, you wouldn't get such a high prize.

"So what's your opinion on the quality of this match?"

"Essentially, it's just an invitational tournament, so it's hard to say how prestigious it is. Yi Zheng's most important goal right now is to win a world championship, but I think he's already a shoo-in for the Olympic gold medal a few years from now."

Yi Zheng is still in his rising phase. He's only eighteen years old this year, and normally a professional player is around twenty-three, which is their peak age.

Shen Guhong couldn't help but sigh as he spoke, saying that the high intensity of competitions and training in this century, coupled with the popularization of professional Go, has shortened the lifespan of professional players considerably compared to the last century.

After all, in the last century, the lack of the internet limited the dissemination of knowledge and the ease of playing games, making experience especially important in many situations. This is why many professional players were able to remain at the top level even in their fifties or sixties.

But things are completely different now. It's already very difficult to maintain a superb performance in professional competitions after the age of 28, and winning a championship after the age of 30 is almost unthinkable.

However, professional Go players are now achieving results much earlier than before. Previously, anyone under thirty was considered a newcomer, but now seventeen or eighteen-year-olds are already competing in world tournaments.

Because the rules for the Rookie of the Year competition in Japan have not been changed, the age limit is now even under 30, meaning that people can actually retire at 30.

But Yi Zheng is only eighteen years old! His foreseeable reign is far too long, so long that it's despairing.

Meanwhile, when another person was used as the human arm, Mr. Zhang, who was watching TV in his office, couldn't help but frown as he saw the evaluations of his artificial intelligence by various professional players.

He didn't expect that these professional players would still rate his AI so poorly.

Artificial intelligence lost to Yi Zheng, but that's all it lost to Yi Zheng.

He's just second only to one person.

Surprisingly, so many people were still barking and howling.

After this competition, we must make those who have doubts truly feel the power of artificial intelligence!

(End of this chapter)