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After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative
For many decades, it seemed professional Go players had reached a hard limit on how well it is possible to play. Then AI beat them.
My guess is that AlphaGo’s success forced the humans to reevaluate certain moves and abandon weak heuristics. Being open source Leela Zero allowed Go players to build tools, like Lizzie, that show the AI’s reasoning when picking moves. Also, by giving people direct access, it made it possible to do massive input learning.
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