{"id":610448,"date":"2023-02-21T07:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T13:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/human-go-player-thoroughly-beats-ai-after-a-computer-program-finds-its-weakness\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T07:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T13:48:47","slug":"human-go-player-thoroughly-beats-ai-after-a-computer-program-finds-its-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/human-go-player-thoroughly-beats-ai-after-a-computer-program-finds-its-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Go player thoroughly beats AI after a computer program finds its weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/ethics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you\u00a0can\u00a0trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"why-it-matters\"><strong>What just happened?<\/strong> It seems the world doesn&#8217;t have to worry about artificial intelligence dominating all aspects of our lives just yet. A human player has thoroughly beaten a top AI in board game Go by exploiting a weakness within the system, though humanity&#8217;s triumph could be tarnished by the fact it took another computer to identify the flaw. <\/p>\n<p>The current AI revolution can trace many of its roots back to 2016 when Google&#8217;s DeepMind AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/63641-google-built-ai-dominated-go-champion.html\">beat<\/a> a top-ranked Go player in five straight matches. While computers had been beating humans at chess for a long time before then, Google said the Go victory was significant as the possible moves in the game outnumber the atoms in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The human player defeated by DeepMind in 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/82951-go-champion-retires-professional-play-cites-undefeatable-ai.html\">retired<\/a> from professional play three years later over the increasing dominance of AI, calling it &#8220;an entity that cannot be defeated.&#8221; But Kellin Pelrine, an American amateur player who&#8217;s one level below the top amateur ranking, won 14 of 15 games against the KataGo AI system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"366\" src title=\"The Future of Go Summit: AlphaGo &#038; Ke Jie match 1 moves analysis\" width=\"651\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cupxZ2Mz6VI?\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Pelrine won the games without the direct help of a computer, it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/goattack.far.ai\/pdfs\/go_attack_paper.pdf?uuid=uZn7ytKY2FqyoUN42878\">program<\/a> developed by a research firm called FAR AI that showed how KataGo could be defeated. Pelrine said it&#8217;s &#8220;not completely trivial, but it&#8217;s not super-difficult&#8221; to learn the method, which he also used to beat Leela Zero, another top AI-powered Go player.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/175e5314-a7f7-4741-a786-273219f433a1\">writes<\/a> that FAR AI played more than one million games against KataGo to learn its weakness that could be exploited by an intermediate-level or better player.<\/p>\n<p>Go involves players placing an unlimited supply of black and white stones on a 19 x 19 board in an attempt to encircle their opponent&#8217;s pieces and enclose the largest amount of space. Pelrine&#8217;s strategy involved creating a loop of stones to encircle his opponent&#8217;s group while distracting the AI with moves in other sections of the board. &#8220;As a human, it would be quite easy to spot,&#8221; Perline said, but the AI didn&#8217;t realize what was happening, even when the loop was almost completed.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Russell, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said Pelrine&#8217;s victory illustrated the flaws in deep learning systems behind many of today&#8217;s AIs, in that they are limited by what they&#8217;re trained on and cannot think for themselves; it&#8217;s what&#8217;s caused some of the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/97621-microsoft-gpt-powered-bing-chat-call-you-liar.html\">weird responses<\/a> from ChatGPT and other AI services.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw has been exploited by Go players for several months now. Engadget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/human-convincingly-beats-ai-at-go-with-help-from-a-bot-100903836.html\">reports<\/a> that Lightvector, which developed of KataGo, said it has been working on a fix for various attacks that use the exploit.<\/p>\n<p>Masthead: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:HermanHiddema\">HermanHiddema<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/97663-human-go-player-thoroughly-beats-ai-after-computer.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Clora Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you\u00a0can\u00a0trust. What just happened? It seems the world doesn&#8217;t have to worry about artificial intelligence dominating all aspects of our lives just yet. A human player has thoroughly beaten a top AI in board game Go by exploiting a weakness within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568,22525,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-610448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human","8":"category-player","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}