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

Chapter 60 The God of Go
"Defeat the dog?"

Yi Zheng was stunned when he heard this. Old Ke had been resurrected in Yi Zheng's body for half a year. Yi Zheng also had a general understanding of this nine-time champion from another world and the Go situation in that other world.

The so-called dog is actually an artificial intelligence for Go.

Because the name of Go in English is GO, "Go" comes from the Japanese word "碁" (pronounced "ご" or "いご"). Since the spread of Go to the West was due to Japan, the word is also related to Japan.

The same is true in this world. Because of its powerful status since ancient times, China does not seem to care much about the active dissemination of its own culture. It is basically in a state of opening but not releasing, and spreading but not broadcasting.

When foreigners come, I can send you to school and teach you, but I will not actively spread my own culture.

Therefore, the spread of many Chinese cultures is that foreigners come in, learn, and then spread them to other foreign countries.

But if Yi Zheng remembered correctly, he still remembered that every time Mr. Ke talked about dogs, he said they were invincible, the God of Go, invincible in the world, he was convinced!

According to Mr. Ke, even though they are the top players in another world and have learned the moves of artificial intelligence, their strength has increased rapidly compared to the past before artificial intelligence.

But even so, artificial intelligence makes it estimated that Mr. Ke’s chance of winning is only about 20% to 30%.

Yi Zheng still found this statement a little hard to believe. After all, in this world, saying that artificial intelligence can conquer Go is simply a fantasy.

If Yi Zheng were to go out now and say that we should be careful because artificial intelligence can defeat humans, he would probably be called hysterical.

After all, now when people mock someone for downloading something poorly, they would say that your download is as good as a computer!

Not to mention comparing artificial intelligence to the god of Go. Even if someone said that, it would be ironic.

There is also a lot of discussion about the concept of the God of Go in the Go community in this world.

For example, the chess master Jiang Mobai once said that even if there really was a Go god, it would be difficult for him to move two of his pieces.

This is the confidence of the world's top players. They believe that they have explored the taboo areas of Go. Even if they have not reached the end of the road, they are definitely capable of fighting for immortality.

But now Yi Zheng can be sure that Mr. Ke is definitely stronger than Jiang Mobai, but it is a bit unbelievable that he can't even make a 50-50 fight against the artificial intelligence of the two.

Even after learning the moves of artificial intelligence, Yi Zheng still found it difficult to accept. Sometimes, Yi Zheng even suspected that Mr. Ke was exaggerating the strength of artificial intelligence because he couldn't save face after losing to it.

After all, with such a huge gap in strength, a ninth-dan player says there are a hundred ways of playing chess, but I only know seven of them. This humble statement has become bragging.

There are still 7% and even 1% that we may not be able to figure out clearly.

But now Mr. Ke says that he has defeated artificial intelligence, which means he has won in points.

Does this mean that artificial intelligence is not invincible?
Mr. Ke seemed to understand what Yi Zheng was thinking and shook his head: "Artificial intelligence also developed slowly and is divided into several stages.

During the first stage in the laboratory, I won an amateur championship. At that time, no one took it seriously, thinking that it was just barely enough to be a professional, and at most used it as a teaching tool for students.

By the second stage, artificial intelligence had reached the pinnacle of human Go. Using data from human Go over the years for training, it had reached a level that seemed incredible at the time.

In a five-game match, I defeated the then-world number one 4-1. The only game I won happened when I played a blind spot in the AI, seemingly triggering a bug. I looked at all five games and felt the AI's performance was flawless, every move breathtaking. But I still believed I had a chance of winning!

So I was anxious to challenge him, because I was afraid that if he continued to evolve, I would not be able to defeat him. "

As Mr. Ke spoke, he couldn't help but sigh. In retrospect, it seemed that he was overestimating his own capabilities when he challenged artificial intelligence. He was like an ant trying to shake a tree, and his boasting was eventually killed by a boomerang.

But at least Mr. Ke correctly recognized the power of artificial intelligence at that time.

After all, even after the artificial intelligence defeated the world's number one in the five-game match, there were still many professional players who believed that the artificial intelligence's strength was just average.

For example, the world number one later once commented that if artificial intelligence maintained its current strength, it could win at least two out of five games. The former world number one lost only because he misjudged the strength of artificial intelligence and failed to bring out his own strength.

It's just that he was not famous at that time, and no one cared about his big talk.

"The AI ​​I defeated was about the same strength as other AIs at this stage, maybe even slightly stronger, because it was developed based on the full AI paper after it was published. It's still a beta version, though."

At this point, Mr. Ke couldn't help but sigh: "But after about a year of the second-generation version of artificial intelligence, the situation will be completely different.

Before I competed with it, a mysterious account appeared on the Internet. It defeated all the top human players with a record of 60 consecutive victories. No one could match it.

If we look back now, most people had already been defeated after about fifty moves.

This account represents the third stage of evolutionary artificial intelligence, using a completely new training method!

I also lost three games in a row online at that time. After playing online, I knew it was impossible to beat him, but I still tried my best to prepare.

Unfortunately, when it came time for the actual match, even though I had already given it my best shot, I could only manage to hold on for a hundred moves, and ultimately I was defeated.”

I couldn't defeat the dog and we both shed tears. I regretted that I had never met my cub!

"But even this isn't the final form of AI, because the foundation of this AI still contains the logic of human chess games, which pollutes its database.

Later, we developed an artificial intelligence that was completely independent of human chess records and could conduct self-research, which was even more powerful. The artificial intelligence we used later was all developed based on the paper on this artificial intelligence.

Coupled with the continuous development and iteration that followed, it is no exaggeration to call AI the God of Go, at least in the eyes of humans.”

Yi Zheng listened to the entire conversation in silence, a rare act. Finally, he simply asked, "Is artificial intelligence truly invincible?"

After hearing this, Mr. Ke was silent for a moment, then immediately changed his tone to a cheerful one: "Who said that? Who said that puppies are not dogs!

I'm showing you the chess game where I defeated the AI, aren't I? And I have more than one such game!

After Mr. Ke finished speaking, I silently added, "Who says those who go back in time aren't heroes? Can that be called regretting a move during a live broadcast? That's called a show effect!"
"Watch out, don't let someone knock you down with the method I used back then. By the way, I'll teach you how to break this method."

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