Shanahan: AlphaGo's Move 37 revolutionized top-level Go strategy
Murray Shanahan · Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator · Jun 28, 2017 · at 9:27
DeepMind researcher Murray Shanahan discusses the impact of DeepMind's AlphaGo on human grandmasters following Garry Kasparov's talk on chess computers.
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“So we've already seen that with our, with AlphaGo in the match with Lee Sedol. So as you probably know, there was a famous move in the second match against Lee Sedol, move 37, where all the commentators, all these sort of nine Dan masters were saying, saying, oh, this is a mistake. What's, what's AlphaGo doing? And this is very strange. And then they sort of gradually I came to realize that this was a sort of revolutionary kind of tactic to put the stone in that particular rank in that particular time in the game. And since then the top Go players have been exploring this kind of play about moving into that sort of territory of when the conventional wisdom was that you shouldn't.”
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