Go pros' decision quality and new-move invention rate jumped after AlphaGo
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-04
A chart circulating on X shows professional Go players' decision quality spiking sharply after AlphaGo's emergence.
Notably, the effect isn't just players copying AI: the rate at which pros invent new moves also accelerated after AlphaGo. Beyond learning from AI, top human experts started innovating faster — a classic empirical case of AI raising human expert performance and creativity.
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