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He's effectively saying as an outsider that he would have won the match just played. But he has no way of knowing that. It's easy to see mistakes from the outsi
by enneff 11y ago
He's effectively saying as an outsider that he would have won the match just played. But he has no way of knowing that. It's easy to see mistakes from the outside. Seems like hubris to me.
- kqr 11y agoAlso it's very likely if the human played stronger in the last match, the computer also would have stepped up. Computers tend to sacrifice points (i.e. "big leads") for assured victory, so unless the human is stronger than the computer, you cannot know it's true potential.
- jacquesm 11y agoThat's a common strategy in human game play and sports as well. It has been observed many times that humans on their own in regular sports do much worse than doing the same in competition against a somewhat stronger party. As they say: one boat is a cruise, two boats, it's a race.
- xiaoma 11y agoTo be fair, he's 8-2 vs Lee Sedol head to head and he's only 19 years old.
- enneff 11y agoHe's great, to be sure, but only Sedol knows what it's like to be in this position. The pressure must be immense.
- forgetsusername 11y ago>Seems like hubris to me. I assumed that, since this has been in the news, he's promoting himself to be next in line to take on the computer. The purpose being the publicity and earnings associated with participating in an event like this (it's not often Go makes it into the mainstream media).
- xiaoma 11y agoMatches have been regularly televised for decades.
- statsaresimple 11y agoThis is very interesting. We have a way to test what he say. A match between the machine and this player with the game in the situation he describes. If he defeats the machine he proves that the machine game is nothing beyond our capabilities.