Google's AlphaGo beats Go master Lee Se-dol – A landmark
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In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies
of Asia Have a Future? BY DAWN CHAN
“If the Go
community’s more fraught reactions exemplify our collective anxiety that A.I.
will gradually render humans useless in an unending succession of fields,
perhaps Asia’s Go academies will be a test case. What happens when machines—and
not just quick number-crunching machines like I.B.M.’s chess-playing Deep Blue,
which beat the grand master Garry Kasparov in 1997, but actual learning
machines—become superior at skills that we think demand creativity, insight,
and uniquely human intuition? Will we continue to see entire early childhoods
spent perfecting such skills, or is the world of specialized Go dojangs nearing
its end? Already, some the schools’ graduates quit Go each year, catching up on
high-school coursework and then finding alternate careers, whether selling
insurance or working in tourism. Will this fate become more common?”