"The sudden overall increase in agreement in 2016 also reinforces the belief that the introduction of powerful AI opponents has boosted the skills of professional players. That apparent correlation isn't conclusive — it's possible that humans have gotten markedly better for some other reason — but it's an example of how a system trained to carry out a given task can also provide wide-ranging analysis of a larger domain, both in the present and from a historical perspective. "
They are using their go AI to measure the strength of human go players, and use its analysis to 'prove' that copying the moves of AIs has made humans stronger (or at least, quantify this increase in strength). There is a huge bias there. I think this is like asking a fisherman whether chefs who specialize in fish have better cooking skills than chefs who specialize in meat... 2019-02-16 17:49 UTC+01:00, J. van der Steen <j.van.der.st...@gobase.org>: > > And most important: > > * Does ELF know the meaning of life? > > On 16/02/2019 17:29, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: >> Hi Remi, >> thanks you for the link. >> >> A few questions (to all who know something): >> >> * How strong is the new ELF bot in comparison with Leela-Zero? >> >> * How were komi values taken into account when analysing old go games with >> help of ELF? >> >> * How often does ELF propose moves played by AlphaGo (for instance in the >> games >> with Fan Hui, Lee Sedol, and in the sixty games from December 2017)? >> >> * Does ELF understand that the strength of AlphaGo increased from October >> 2015 to May 2017? >> >> Cheers, Ingo. >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> Computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
