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Monday, April 11, 2016

Prompt #4: Contemplating Controversy

Guozhuoyan Zhang

After AlphaGo defeated the Korean player Lee Sedol in Go, the general public raised the concerns about the threatening of the artificial intelligence to humanity.

In the current chess game, Go could be the most talented completion. There are 19 verticals, horizons and 391 points of intersection. With black and white Go pieces, it will evolve billions of variations across the Go board. It is important for humans to remember numerous Go manuals and calculate Go pieces’ mesh number in order to improve the Go level. The intuition of Go board and the judgment of the opponent are also necessary for a professional Go player.

It is not an easy thing for artificial intelligence to play Go well. At the early stage of the development of a Go artificial intelligence, an experienced players could defeat the computer easily. The AI of Go at that time was unable to conquer this Go board in computing capacity and optimization algorithm. Nowadays, after the development of the computer operation ability and deep learning ability, artificial intelligence launched the assault to human Go championship.

Both side were playing a good game. And 4:1 is the final score of AlphaGo and Lee Sedol. Many people said that the machine has defeated human brains. Be vigilant to the artificial intelligence is the hot topic at that time. However, the program of AlphaGo is definitely the quintessence of human wisdom. Even AlphaGo defeated the human championship, it is also the victory of human intelligence’ self-transcendence.


The biggest advantage of the human intelligence is the ability of thinking and innovating. Those abilities are never having the critical explanations for them by any known science reports. The artificial intelligence is hard to represent the process of human thinking and innovating. Independent thinking and self-improvement are impossible for AI to realize.

Work Cited:
"The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - Wait But Why." Wait But Why. 2015. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.
"The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 2 - Wait But Why." Wait But Why. 2015. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.
"What AlphaGo's Win Means for Your Job." Fortune What AlphaGos Win Means for Your Job Comments. 2016. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.

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