People's Daily Online, Beijing, March 31 (Wen Jing) On March 30, the "Interpretation of Alpha Go Human-Machine Battle and China Artificial Intelligence Forum" co-sponsored by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence was held at Beihang University. At the forum seminar, Chen Zhao, the founder of the World Computer Go Championship, exclusively revealed to People.cn that a team of Chinese computer Go scientists will challenge Google's AlphaGo at the end of this year.
At the seminar, Liu Zhiqing, a professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and director of the Institute of Computer Go, introduced the reason why Alpha Go is powerful, and made a report on "Interpretation of the technology behind Alpha Go's man-machine battle against Go". In the report, he summarized AlphaGo's methodology as: intuition acquisition, search verification, and optimal decision-making. Liu Zhiqing believes that this is the core of future artificial intelligence.
The guests in the Go world also interacted around this topic. Wang Runan, chairman of the Chinese Go Association, believed that the result of Alpha Go’s challenge to Li Shishi shocked the Go world. “But after the shock and shock, I think it gradually became clear. In fact, there are many things in Alpha Go that are worth learning or thinking about for our professional Go players. Your success is based on practice and science, so I think Alpha Go is definitely worth learning.”
Famous chess player Chang Hao Jiudan said: "The performance of Alpha Go this time is unexpected to me. I used to have the impression that if a computer beats humans, its strengths must be its calculations and not making mistakes. Correspondingly quantified things may be a place where he is particularly strong, but in terms of layout and overall situation, it is difficult to quantify that professional players should be stronger. But these few games have subverted my opinion. There have been some mistakes in this area, and Professor Liu Zhiqing's report just now answered my questions very well.
Go coach Yu Bin 9th Dan has the same thoughts as Chang Hao, "I think Alpha Go's 5 games showed his good judgment and ability to control the overall situation. Even there are many mysterious things in Go, and he did it very well. But if the shortcomings of computers cannot be solved, people have opportunities. So I have always said that this time Li Shishi rushed to the game, did not conduct various researches, and did not consult computer experts. This is the biggest reason for his failure."
At the seminar, Chen Zhao, the founder of the World Computer Go Championship, exclusively revealed to People.cn that he is organizing a team of Chinese computer Go scientists to carry out scientific research. The team of scientists is confident that they will challenge Google Alpha Go at the second World Computer Go Championship at the end of this year.
