Cultural perspective
At the Chunlan Cup World Professional Go Championship ended at the end of last year, Chinese chess player Li Xuanhao defeated Shen Zhenzheng, who is actually the first Korean player in the world, and broke into the finals.For Chinese chess players, it was originally gratifying. However, Li Xuanhao's national teammate and world champion Yang Dingxin questioned Li Xuanhao in the circle of friends and publicly played the war book.Fan Qi, and said that if Li Xuanhao was wronged, he would retire.Yang Dingxin's national teammates Ke Jie, Lian Xiao, Jiang Weijie, Chen Yaozhen and others also praised him and supported him.
Is Li Xuanhao cheating?I don't know and don't want to discuss it.What I want to say is that this "scandal" is unimaginable before artificial intelligence intervention in Go.The Google Computer Go program "AlphaGo" (AlphaGo, commonly known as "Alpha Dog") came out, and in 2016, he defeated the "Human Representative" Li Shishi, and various artificial intelligence software similar to "Alpha Dog", including unbeatable arts, Tianxiang, andELF, Star Array, AQ, etc. are sprung up like the rain.
The reason whyintervenes "is because artificial intelligence enters and affects the Go industry, and has not been consent from the majority of Go practitioners.If all players now vote together, many people may oppose votes to artificial intelligence into Go, and even define this intervention as violation.But this is the end, we can't blame artificial intelligence, we can only review the consequences it brings.In the past six years, artificial intelligence has indeed profoundly affected and changed the appearance of Go, and to some extent "hurt" all aspects of Go.As one of the earliest sports projects that are affected by artificial intelligence, Go seems to be used as a lesson.
First of all, artificial intelligence has largely changed the tradition of Go, and as many comments say, it is likely that Go is likely to reduce Go from a art to a technology.Before artificial intelligence is generated, Go has a tradition of teacher inheritance.Wu Qingyuan and Lin Haifeng, Cao Xunyi and Li Changhao, Nie Weiping and Guli, a pair of couples and apprentices became legend.After artificial intelligence is generated, there is only one real teacher, which is always correct artificial intelligence.
In the past, Go has also created countless traditional fixed formulas.However, after the emergence of artificial intelligence, the balanced formula in human eyes was almost denied.Artificial intelligence invented a lot of its own fixed formulas.This has also led to many current competitions, the first 50 steps or more are based on the artificial intelligence model, and the game itself becomes boring.
pull the professional chess player down the altar
As a national essence, Go has its philosophical and cultural connotation.The small chessboard is the entire universe, and black and white chess pieces represent yin and yang.Go becomes one of the symbols of oriental culture, representing Oriental Wisdom.Golden Horn, silver edge, conspiracy to work, wonderful hands, overall views, etc. These words are either cited to express their meaning, or they have become the composition topics of the college entrance examination. They all represent Go as a cultural symbol into the daily life of the Chinese.
Master Wu Qingyuan searched for a spirit in Go, summarizing it as "neutralization"; Dazhu Heroes established aesthetics in Go in Go, the second to win, the first aesthetics, the beauty in the chess, the beauty is the Tao.Faced with the foolish shape of artificial intelligence in the match with humans, Dazhu Hero issued a strong question: "Is this Go?" Unfortunately, this is indeed artificial intelligence Go, a Go that is only responsible for winning.In front of algorithms, human Go aesthetics are unbearable.Artificial intelligence tells the world that the Go is not so mysterious, not so high, or even not complicated. It is just an algorithm.
Secondly, artificial intelligence pulls the professional players down the altar and let them sweep the floor to a certain extent.
In the past, the scores of winning a professional competition may be the greatest happiness of a chess fan.The top professional Goist is a kind of near -god in people's hearts, and is the incarnation of the highest wisdom of human beings.A step by step to analyze the chess they came out is a kind of enjoyment.After the emergence of artificial intelligence, everyone may hold an artificial intelligence software in their hands, which is enough to question every step under the professional master.
In the live broadcast of the Go Contest, how to play in the next step, which points to take, and the winning rates are calculated clearly.Watching such a live broadcast, professional chess players are no longer looking up, but they need to use their strength to approach the optimal solution to artificial intelligence.Any small mistake may be sentenced to death by artificial intelligence, and the winning rate collapses instantly. The player himself must accept the ruthless ridicule or even abuse of the viewer.
For example, Go is an open proposition. The players are all showing their magical powers. They can answer the questions, which are wonderful. Now artificial intelligence has given a standard answer, which completely tied the players' hands and feet.In the past, chess players have strong power, on the field, have the atmosphere of the universe, and have a balanced chess style; now the chess style is no longer important, and even people do not have a lot of players.The rest is only close to the degree of artificial intelligence, depending on who learns artificial intelligence the best and most similar.For example, Shen Zhenyu is called "Shenqian Smart", and Li Xuanhao is called "Xuanqian Smart".In the past, chess players depended on their talents and who had deep understanding of Go. Now they mainly look at hard work.As Ko Jie said, he learned artificial intelligence, 99%back, 1%by understanding, the top player of the professional player degenerate into an artificial intelligence's "small follower", and the dignity of chess roads has not existed for a long time.
Finally, artificial intelligence adds too much controversy to the Go game, and anti -cheating has become a major problem in the chess industry.
Taking the competitions of Li Xuanhao and Shen Zhenyu as an example, the reason why Li Xuanhao is questioned is because he has a process of about 100 hands after the mid -market, all in the first three choices of artificial intelligence.Because of the epidemic, many competitions have been changed to online chess, which has increased more difficulties to regulatory supervision.Because of the use of artificial intelligence in violation of regulations, some players were banned, but the top players have hardly been caught so far.Not only the people outside the Go circle questioned, the same is true of the players. Ke Jie had questioned Shen Zhenyu and Li Xuanhao before.
Go is a pure land of one side, because of artificial intelligence, it becomes no longer pure.Maybe many of these questions lack the basis, but they are enough to make an industry smoke.Not only the top player, but many of the Go enthusiasts are also suffering from cheating.I originally saw a lot of chess friends reported in the media that the current online chess can not continue to a certain level, because everyone has artificial intelligence in their hands, all holding "dogs", it looks like people and people and people and peoplePeople may actually be stranging by "dogs" and "dogs". They are CPUs and servers.
Time returned more than six years ago, when Alpha dog appeared, people never thought that it would change so much to Go in just a few years.If you expected that there will be such a result, practitioners will definitely find a way to make the use of artificial intelligence software supervised, rather than being abused as it is now.Large companies can choose to use Go to operate and develop their artificial intelligence products, but as an ancient game that exists for thousands of years, please give it some of the most basic respect.Judging from the "harm" process of Go, the harm of artificial intelligence is worthy of vigilance.It may not be able to bring people to the other bank, but it will definitely break through the real dams of reality, destroy the past traditions, and subvert the existing culture. Are you ready for this?
The author is a reporter from Shandong, China
Go is a pure land of one side, because of artificial intelligence, it becomes no longer pure.Maybe many of these questions lack the basis, but they are enough to make an industry smoke.Not only are the top players, but a lot of Go enthusiasts are also suffering from cheating.
