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

Chapter 461 You're Really a Dog

"This is the final game of the human-machine Go match. Yi Zheng's strength has shocked us all. It can even be said that in the long history of the development of Go, this ancient art, he has reached an unprecedented peak, a height that we could hardly imagine in the past and may not be able to surpass in the future."

The outcome of the entire match completely exceeded our expectations. In the intense first four rounds, although the artificial intelligence occasionally showed flashes of brilliance and demonstrated the potential to compete, it was unable to truly win a single round and was consistently suppressed by the brilliance of human geniuses.

Nevertheless, the contest between humans and artificial intelligence will not end with this game. Artificial intelligence technology is still in a phase of rapid development, and its potential has not yet been fully explored. We firmly believe that in the near future, a new round of even more exciting and intense human-machine battles will unfold. At that time, both human players and artificial intelligence will bring surprises that surpass today's achievements—and that day we await is not far off.

At the press conference before the final game of the human-machine Go match, Mr. Zhang, as a representative of the organizer, gave a brief summary of the competition between artificial intelligence and top human Go players.

Actually, I originally wanted to say that I would definitely defeat Yi Zheng badly next time we met, but thinking about the current situation, it feels a bit clownish to say such a thing.

After all, in this man-machine battle, the machine was completely defeated.

Moreover, it was a complete 4-0 defeat, and there was almost no hope of winning the final game. It was a huge blow to the artificial intelligence research team. Although the company clearly supports continuing to push forward, many of the R&D staff were devastated.

Imagine that the fruits of your wisdom, which you have poured countless hours of effort into creating day and night, are ruthlessly and completely suppressed on a world-renowned stage. It's like being slapped in the face—a public and undisguised humiliation, tantamount to a public execution.

Many researchers are extremely arrogant, believing in the power of reason, logic, and algorithms. In their view, Go, no matter how profound, is just a board game, and even the most skilled players are still just "bad players." They find it hard to accept that the complex systems they have built are so vulnerable in the face of human intuition and creativity.

We don't need to view so-called "masters" or "scientists" with too much veneer.

This group is already quite large, and it's inevitable that there will be individuals of varying abilities and those who don't live up to their reputation.

Even if we strip away all the hype and only look at those with real talent, the academic world is never short of farces involving disputes, scheming, and even open hostility. No matter how intelligent a person is, when faced with power, interests, or emotions, they are ultimately just an ordinary person, capable of cowardice, wavering, and even flattery.

However, the AI ​​research teams have basically confirmed one thing: the next stage of AI research must reach a completely new level before it can be put into practice.

I will never leave the laboratory until I am invincible!

Let's set a small goal first: 5,000 ranking points!

According to the world Go ranking system, most of the world's top players have a score of around 3,600. The world's number one player in history has probably reached over 3,700. Yi Zheng is considered abnormal, reaching over 4,000 points. It's impossible that he still can't win even with 5,000 points!

It's like how no matter how powerful an Earthling is, they can defeat a Saiyan, but they can't defeat a Super Saiyan!
If Ke Lao heard this, he would probably retort: ​​Who said that artificial humans are not from Earth?

Yi Zheng, meanwhile, calmly fanned himself on the side, but by the end, he had become somewhat bored.

This artificial intelligence is indeed quite powerful; it would be difficult for anyone other than myself to defeat it. However, it is also far from the artificial intelligence I had imagined.

"Hello Mr. Zhang, I saw that the Chinese Chess Academy recently released an announcement about holding an online AI competition, welcoming challenges from all walks of life. The winner will receive a prize of 500,000 yuan. Is this a remedial measure taken after Yi Zheng 9-dan's defeat?"

Upon hearing the reporter's insensitive question, Mr. Zhang couldn't help but cough twice. Who let this person in? Wasn't it agreed that all the journalism students had been bribed beforehand?

However, Dr. Wu Chaoqun, who was standing next to him as the R&D representative, said: "Artificial intelligence has always been conducted in the laboratory. We also hope to collect enough data on human chess players as a reference sample to establish a standard, but much of the data is actually outdated."

Therefore, we also need new data, especially data that is currently at its peak, to better determine the current stage of artificial intelligence's capabilities.

This competition will consist of ten games per day for three consecutive days, and will be held online. We welcome everyone to follow along.

This news has already caused quite a stir in the Go community, with many people eager to get started.

After all, 500,000 is already the prize money for a small tournament, and you can get that money just by winning one game. Even the world's top professional players may not be able to earn that much in one game.

This has made many people who think that artificial intelligence is nothing special eager to try their luck and make a fortune.

However, due to the overwhelming number of applicants and the fact that the competition was open to top players from around the world, the website urgently implemented a screening process, disqualifying players below the seventh dan level from participating in the matches.

Nine of the top ten ranked players in the world were carefully selected and each received one match opportunity. The remaining twenty-one spots were filled through online queuing for random matches, depending on luck.

Why are there only nine people in the world's top ten? Isn't that normal?
Meanwhile, the final game of the man-machine battle began, with both sides drawing lots again to determine who would play first, and Yi Zheng finally got to play white.

There was no other way; previously, the black and white pieces were rotated, but white had been given to Master Ke both times. This time, it's finally his turn.

However, everyone knew the outcome of the competition from the beginning: artificial intelligence had almost no chance of winning.

Although the first generation of artificial intelligence has added new game records to its database, brought by Yi Zheng and Ke Lao, it still uses many old versions of joseki, which seem to be similar to those of today's top players.

Although I learned it, I didn't learn it completely. I made some innovations, but it still ended up being a hodgepodge.

As many top players have said, seeing AlphaGo's games surprised them, revealing that Go could be played in such a way, broadening their thinking, but to some extent, it broadened it too much.

In response, Yi Zheng stated that Jueyi, as a self-proclaimed "dog," is not a dog at all, and is even less of a dog than himself.

Jueyi: I'm not human, but you really are a dog!

(End of this chapter)