Where will Go go in the AI era
2022-03-20 16:42:57Source: Xi’an News Network
In the qualifiers of the 18th Advocate Chess Cup China Professional Go Championship held recently, professional beginner Liu Ruizhi was suspended for one year by the Chinese Go Association for violating the “prohibition of using artificial intelligence” regulations. In recent years, news of Go players using artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat is not uncommon. According to Professor Li Xing, director of the Chess and Cards Teaching and Research Office of Xi’an Institute of Physical Education and a professional Go professional, how to use and regulate artificial intelligence has become a new topic in the Go world.
Korean chess player jailed for cheating
In March 2016, the Korean Go world champion Lee Sedol and the artificial intelligence “AlphaGo” launched a “human-machine war”. , the victory of “Alpha Dog” not only changed human’s view of Go AI, but also marked the entry of the Go field into the AI era. Subsequently, more artificial intelligence software for Go appeared, and professional and amateur players also began to use artificial intelligence for training. At the same time, there were more and more cases of cheating using artificial intelligence.
In 2020, in the fixed stage competition held by the Korean Chess Academy, a player and an off-field partner used artificial intelligence to cheat. In the end, the player was sentenced to one year in prison, and his partner was also sentenced to probation. In September of the same year, the 13-year-old South Korean Go “genius girl” Kim Eun-chi was banned for one year for cheating by the Korean Chess Academy for browsing artificial intelligence moves through the web during an online game. In China, there were also suspected AI cheating incidents in the 2018 National Amateur Go Open, and this time Liu Ruizhi was caught cheating in the qualifiers of the Advocacy Cup China Professional Go Championship. China was suspended for illegal use of artificial intelligence. It is also worth mentioning that the day before Liu Ruizhi’s competition, there was another chess player who was suspected of using artificial intelligence and was sentenced to lose.
Ke Jie once said, “I’m fed up with AI Go”
“I have also paid attention to the cheating incidents in the Advocate Chess Cup competition. In fact, since the opening of artificial intelligence in Go, the number of cheating incidents has gradually increased. This situation must be strictly managed, otherwise it will be a heavy blow to the game of Go itself. ” said Li Xing, director of the Chess and Cards Teaching and Research Office of Xi’an Institute of Physical Education and a professional Go professional 6th Duan Li Xing.
According to Professor Li Xing, he has also encountered opponents using artificial intelligence in online games, and he admits that artificial intelligence cheating makes the game uninteresting, “Actually, Go is very suitable for online games, which is cost-effective and easy to implement. , but the use of artificial intelligence to cheat has challenged the fairness of the game. Many chess players around me used to like to play online chess. Later, due to the increase in online cheating, they basically don’t play chess online with people they don’t know. .” In Professor Li Xing’s view, the advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence are obvious, but in terms of disadvantages, Go has lost its own unique charm. World champion Ke Jie once expressed a similar view, saying that artificial intelligence has made Go lose its beauty, and that he is “fed up with AI Go”.
Grading competitions have also been “polluted”
When talking regarding cheating with artificial intelligence, Professor Li Xing believes that “utility” is one of the important reasons for chess players to take risks. Just earlier this month, the WeChat official account of the Sichuan Go intelligent management service platform published an article saying that in the February 2022 city and state Go level intelligent test, individual candidates were detected by the platform as suspected of using AI to assist the test. “In my opinion, preventing artificial intelligence from cheating requires efforts in systems and rules, and more importantly, improving the cultural literacy of chess players, because playing Go itself is for self-cultivation, cultivating maturity and stability, the outcome is bearish, and not arrogant. Impatient psychology and literacy.” Professor Li Xing said. In the interview, a person in the field of Go training also revealed that many parents of students now regard Go as a “stepping stone” or an “investment”, and the teaching of Go educational institutions is generally “emphasizing skills over gifts.”
Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence has opened up a whole new world of Go, enabling players to better improve their skills, but it has also made some players rely too much on artificial intelligence and even use it to cheat. Professor Li Xing said frankly that how to use and regulate artificial intelligence has become a new topic in the Go world.
Yan Bin, chief reporter of Xi’an Newspaper Omnimedia