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schaefer · 2022-06-06 · Original thread
Counterpoint: AlphaGo discovered new moves in the Game of Go, to the extent that books have been written about those new moves and how they change modern opening theory[1].

In Go, there are hundreds of years of tradition studying the games of past master players, and analyzing how their innovations changed our cultural understanding of the game. Humanity can't have it both ways. If those contributions were valuable when made by a human, they should be equally valuable when made by an AI.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Using-AlphaGos-Enlarged-Corner-Enclos...

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