It’s time for humanity to start playing dirty as Go champion is defeated by a computer
According to The New York Times, champion Go player Ke Jie was just defeated in the first match of a three-game series against AlphaGo, a computer program designed by Google to play the centuries-old Chinese board game. This is particularly notable because Go is famously complex, and Ke Jie himself says that AlphaGo is becoming so advanced that it has gone from “humanlike” to being more “like a god” in the past year. In fact, Go players are reportedly changing up their strategies to reflect the “unorthodox” way that AlphaGo behaves, and Ke Jie says he’s going to go back to playing human competitors because the computer is more of a “teacher” than a fair competitor now.
