What is it about?
Since the advent of AlphaGo, Artificial Intelligence(AI) has been actively introduced into the Go training. We analyzed how the performance of professional Go players has changed since the advent of AlphaGo, and the significant impact of AI-based training was confirmed.
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Why is it important?
We interviewed and surveyed professional Go players and found that AI has been actively introduced into the Go training process since the advent of AlphaGo. The significant impact of AI-based training was confirmed in a subsequent analysis of 6,292 games in Korean Go tournaments and Elo rating data of 1,362 Go players worldwide. Overall, the tendency of players to make moves similar to those recommended by AI has sharply increased since 2017. The degree to which players’ expected win rates fluctuate during a game has also decreased significantly since 2017. We also found that AI-based training has provided more benefits to senior players and allowed them to achieve Elo ratings higher than those of junior players.
Perspectives
Through this study, we would like to emphasize that AI technology can truly have a major impact on society, and therefore, we should more actively and simultaneously make predictions about such impacts during technology development. By doing so, we will be able to maximize the benefits AI brings to society while simultaneously providing safeguards for those who are marginalized by AI. The impact of autonomous driving technology on taxi and truck drivers and the impact of smart logistics systems on the local market are examples of cases that require such consideration.
Jimoon Kang
Yonsei University
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This page is a summary of: How AI-Based Training Affected the Performance of Professional Go Players, April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517540.
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