CHAPTER 8Sustainable AI Technology
AI will do the analytical thinking, while humans will wrap that analysis in warmth and compassion.
— Kai-Fu Lee
HARNESSING AI: SOLVING HUMANITY'S TOUGHEST PROBLEMS
Checkmate: A Human-AI Triumph
February 2023. An amateur Go player, Kellin Pelrine, stared at the board. His opponent, KataGo, the top-ranked AI system, awaited its inevitable victory.
No human being had beaten a top-ranked AI system since AlphaGo's iconic victory over world Champion Lee Sedol in 2016. That battle, a cultural phenomenon watched by 200 million online viewers, sent shockwaves through the world of AI.
Now Kellin was an underdog, a human David facing an AI Goliath armed with something no one had seen before.
The game commenced, and Kellin started making decoy moves, confounding KataGo and leading it into a blind spot. He was exploiting a weakness, a flaw unearthed by another AI program developed by FAR.AI.
As the game progressed, the unthinkable happened. Kellin dominated, winning fourteen out of fifteen games. The news headline flashed worldwide: “Man Beats Machine at Go – Victory of Human Over AI.”
It was a whisper compared to the uproar of AlphaGo's triumph, a story overshadowed by the viral success of the next big thing in AI: OpenAI's ChatGPT. But the implications were profound.
Kellin's victory wasn't just a human triumph but a testament to human–AI collaboration. ...
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