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Does anyone notice the lack of ko[1] in the games? In all 7 public games (5 with Fan and 2 with Lee) there isn't any ko. This is unusual. If we still can't see
by blacktulip 11y ago
Does anyone notice the lack of ko[1] in the games? In all 7 public games (5 with Fan and 2 with Lee) there isn't any ko. This is unusual. If we still can't see ko fights in the following 3 games...I would suspect that AlphaGo isn't able to handle ko well enough yet, and Google asked Lee and Fan to not initialize ko fights in the games.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_fight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_fight
- w0bb13 11y agoI can't believe they would be told not to, or that Lee would abide by it in this match! Now, I'm not good enough to evaluate if this seems likely, but I could understand that AlphaGo (especially if it was winning) avoided Kos, since they are high variance situations.
- lukev 11y agoIsn't it more likely that the opposite is true, and Ko is the kind of thing where it is possible for a computer to play flawlessly? I am very very very far from a Go expert, but Ko did always seem to be "first person to make a mistake looses". If that's true, I'm sure Sedol deliberately stayed away from it as an area where the computer is likely to be particularly strong.