32639 - The victory of AlphaGo

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

The victory of AlphaGo in China, that being the country where Go was born 4.000 years ago, against the current champion of the world, is not simply a symbolic result in a strategy game, it is a confirmation of a new beginning in the field, because AlphaGo with the version Master behaves already as a teacher since it provides data analysis, provides new ideas and even new openings, it continually surprises its opponents with its flexibility. So in reality we see elements of a hyperstructure which is born not only to play as some non specialists in the artificial intelligence strategy field think, but to help practically in the evolution of Mankind. Because for those who see only a simple conflict between a human and a machine, they simply don’t understand the whole framework because they forgot that the programming of AlphaGo and the structure itself has been created by members of Humanity and the way to confront the game Go by AlphaGo is not based on an exclusive approach of the specialist. On the contrary it is about a holistic approach with a deep neural network that has the capability to expand in other fields where the complexity makes the difference. And this is the real victory of AlphaGo.