A human has beat an AI in possibly the most complex board game ever

An iFLYTEK robot plays


Humanity’s win/loss ratio against the robots crept infinitesimally upwards recently, as a human player managed to snaffle a win against an AI in Go, considered by some to be the most complex board game ever devised (there are more possible games of Go than there are atoms (opens in new tab) in the observable universe). As reported by the Financial Times (opens in new tab), a highly-ranked amateur Go player named Kellin Pelrine managed to outperform the KataGo AI in 14 of 15 games played together.

Now, to be fair, Pelrine had a bit of help. A research company called FAR AI came up with its own program to investigate KataGo’s weaknesses. FAR AI’s system played over a million games against KataGo, allowing it to come up with a plan of attack that a human player could plausibly execute, which got handed off to Pelrine. So, you know, I guess we don’t stand a chance against the machine ourselves, but if we can closely obey their orders we might at least be well cared for.



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