Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players
While I can understand Lee Se-dol&#x27;s frustration, I think there are better lessons to learn from Kasparov&#x27;s acceptance after the Deep Blue vs Kasparov matches.<p>Cyborg chess is the future of chess. Period. Chess players use computers to train themselves and explore openings in human-only settings, while programmers &#x2F; cyborgs play correspondence chess.<p>Go is not finished as a game. A new tool, MCTS + Neural nets, has been developed to explore the &quot;truth&quot; behind the game at ever increasing rates. Its not about how to beat the tool, the question is how to best utilize the tool to improve self-play and self-learning in the game of Go.<p>Or alternatively: how to best use the tool to play ever more perfect games of Go.<p>-----------<p>Come on, none of us are really &quot;human&quot; anymore since the advent of cell phones. We all use our cyborg-capabilities to search the internet and fact-check ourselves every day. Programmers use stack-overflow to teach themselves programming and remember obscure details (using our cyborg capabilities to tag, search, and sift through information ever faster and faster).<p>Go is the same thing, except we only learned how to become cyborgs two years ago.<p>----------<p>Give the world-champions each a copy of AlphaGo on equal computers. Have them play Go against each other WITH computer assistance. I guarantee you that a more beautiful and perfect game will result. Let us welcome the age of Cyborg Go as we step into the future, we shouldn&#x27;t be scared of it. We&#x27;ve become cyborgs in many other tasks, and Go is no different.