From AlphaGo's Team to a LLM-Coded Go App: AI's Ten-Year Trajectory Echoed by Move 78
shaunralston · x · 2026-09-12
Responding to the claim that GPT-6 Astra coded an app capable of beating a Go world champion a decade after DeepMind's full-team AlphaGo effort, shaunralston recalls the famous symmetry: AlphaGo's shocking Move 37 versus Lee Sedol's brilliant human Move 78 — "maybe the humans haven't lost just yet." A meme-flavored observation on the pace of AI progress.
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