“The Canteen of HaiChuan Irrigation Co., Ltd.” 297: The footsteps of artificial intelligence, can you hear them?

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Although the outcome of the final five-game series remains to be determined, artificial intelligence has already demonstrated its astonishing capabilities and rapid pace of improvement; moreover, it is likely that people still do not truly understand its true strength. Fan Hui, the European champion of Chinese descent who was swept 5-0 by AlphaGo, recalled that in the third game the computer could have captured one of his pieces, but it didn’t do so, as it was still possible to win without making that capture; by instead taking the initiative to attack and forcing the opponent into a desperate struggle, more variables were created. Since such a strategy of holding back can be employed in one game, it’s hard to say that artificial intelligence wouldn’t exercise varying degrees of restraint when facing different opponents. On top of that, it is “self-evolving” at a rate of 10,000 units per day. To some extent, what Lee Sedol saw a few months ago and what Ke Jie sees now are not the same \"Alpha computer\". Judging the true capabilities of artificial intelligence based on game records has become a futile attempt.