Another " man-machine war " is about to kick off! It is understood that on the evening of October 15, Chinese chess master Xie Jing will fight against the chess robot "Yuanluocarrot" equipped with the latest artificial intelligence program. After many years, humans have once again faced the robot and started an intellectual duel. Can humans win a game this time?
Intelligence duel between chess master and AI. As soon as the news came out, it immediately topped the hot search list of the country and Shanghai locally -
. Both sides of this showdown were the 17th chess master in China who won the title of "chess king" - Xie Jing .
He was accepted as a "closed disciple" by the special master Hu Ronghua in 2001. In the same year, he won the 16-year-old championship of the National Youth Championship and was promoted to a chess master. In 2008, he won the championship in the "6th Weikai Real Estate Cup" in Beijing and was promoted to a chess master.
Xie Jing's live broadcast room of the "Chess Charity Charity" Elephant Academic Lecture Hall
The strength of his opponents cannot be underestimated - "Yuanluobo SenseRobotAI" is a chess robot launched by Sense Robot Technology . It integrates leading AI vision technology and robot arm technology, and has completed more than 100 million games of self-game training . He is a well-deserved robot chess master with "hand-eye collaboration".
picture from @Shangtang Technology
It is understood that unlike previous chess human-machine battles, in this duel, the robot no longer needs people to help it perform moves and eats. From perception (observing changes in the chess game), decisions (estimating the moves) to control (operating moves and eats them), "yuan Radish" will be completed alone.
Many netizens are looking forward to another showdown between humans and AI.
Someone has seen the power of "yuan radish" early on...
Of course, there are more netizens who sighed - the battle between people and AI. According to past experience, is it possible for people to win?
Let’s appreciate the previous three "human-machine wars" and feel the competition between human "strongest brains" and artificial intelligence on the chessboard.
Kasparov VS "Dark Blue"
Speaking of the first duel between humans and AI, it is recognized as the decisive battle between IBM Dark Blue and Kasparov in 1997. This is also considered to be the first year of artificial intelligence, which means that artificial intelligence has finally emerged from science fiction and entered the real world of human beings.
It is understood that "Deep Blue" is a supercomputer produced by IBM in the United States. It weighs 1,270 kilograms, has 32 CPUs, can calculate 200 million steps per second, and has 11.38 Flops in computing power, and input more than two million games of outstanding chess players over the past hundred years.
Flops is " floating-point operation times per second", which is an internationally recognized unit of measurement of computing power. The value of Deep Blue 11.38 Flops represents 11 billion calculations per second.
Kasparov is a genius in the history of chess and is known as the "big master in the chess world".
Kasparov vs. Supercomputer "Deep Blue"
In 1996, Kasparov fought with the supercomputer "Deep Blue" of IBM's company for the first time, and won with a record of 4:2.
In 1997, Kasparov once again faced the improved "Deep Blue" and lost with a score of 2.5:3.5.
In 2003, Kasparov played against two super engines (DeepJunior and DeepFritz respectively), and the result was "shaking hands and making peace".
Lee Sedol VS AlphaGo
Time comes in 2016, and South Korean 9th dan professional chess player Lee Sedol engages in a Go man-machine battle with artificial intelligence AlphaGo.
The match between Lee Sedol and artificial intelligence AlphaGo
Lee Sedol is recognized as one of the world's top chess players. In his career, he has won a total of 14 world championships.
robot rival is AlphaGo, a DeepMind company under Google, which has been researched and developed for many years by DeepMind, a "deep learning" Go artificial intelligence program - AlphaGo, which netizens call " AlphaGo ".
Sogou CEOWang Xiaochuan said that Alphago's computing power is 30,000 times that of IBM's computer "deep blue" .
Even so, before the start of the game, the public was optimistic about Lee Sedol, believing that there were too many changes in Go and that artificial intelligence could not understand the ever-changing ways to play Go.
Even Lee Sedol himself said that he studied AlphaGo Go score and believed that it was only at the level of the third level of profession.
Lee Sedol took the long test in the game (long test, Go term, refers to playing chess after long thinking)/People's Daily data picture
However, when the first game of the game was played until 186, Lee Sedol admitted his loss, and the viewing room was solemn. People dare not accept this fact-- For the first time in history, human Go world champion lost to artificial intelligence .
Although Lee Sedol obviously took a lot of seriousness in the second and third games, he thought carefully about every move and faced it in the best condition. But in the end, he was defeated with 1:4. After the game, Lee Sedol said that AlphaGo's Go is perfect .
lost instantly, and the only winning game in "1:4" is worth mentioning. In the fourth game, Lee Sedol made a recognized "god move" after a long test. The artificial intelligence robot AlphaGo fell into the longest calculation ever, and it seemed that he did not expect such a move.
AlphaGo's subsequent chess was a little hasty and messy, and seemed a little overwhelmed. Lee Sedol took this opportunity to conquer the city and reverse the situation, and finally won a game in the middle set.
People cheered, applauded thunderously, and were very excited - it turns out that humans can defeat artificial intelligence robots!
Lee Sedol was interviewed (data photo)/ Xinhua News Agency
On November 19, 2019, Lee Sedol submitted his resignation to Korea Chess Institute and officially announced his retirement. Lee Sedol was only 36 years old when he retired. Speaking of retirement, Lee Sedol admitted that AlphaGo was one of the reasons that promoted him to retire prematurely.
Although he positively likes AlphaGo's close perfection, Lee Sedol believes that the existence of artificial intelligence has made the study of Go lose the fun -
I learned Go from the perspective of knowledge and art, but with the emergence of artificial intelligence, I began to essentially doubt how much value this is.
has contacted many chess players through the Internet, and artificial intelligence can analyze the situation of the chess game. Of course, this is the trend of the times, and it cannot be said that it is not bad, but it was not like this when I first started learning Go.
Ke Jie VS AlphaGo
When he learned that Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Ke Jie asserted, "Even if AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, it can't beat me."
A year later, in 2017, AlphaGo upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0, and his opponent was also replaced by Lee Sedol from South Korea to Ke Jie of China.
Guli (first left), Fan Hui (third left), Nie Weiping (second right), Ke Jie (first right) and Google CEO Sandall Picai (second left) discuss AlphaGo's chess skills. /deepmind.com
Looking back, this decisive battle has a meaning of "losing before the battle":
When talking about the possible outcome of Ke Jie's match against AlphaGo at the Wuzhen Go summit, the human chess player was very pessimistic -
Chinese "chess saint" Nie Weiping said that he believed Ke Jie would be defeated 0:3.
Gu Li Jiudan believes that if Ke Jie performs 100%, he may have a 5% winning rate.
Even Ke Jie himself said modestly: "It is my honor to be able to fight on behalf of human beings this time. I will do my best to win, decide the outcome, have the belief in winning and the determination to die, and do not easily lose." We all know that Ke Jie's luck is not as good as Lee Sedol, and he ends up losing all three games.
Ke Jie in the competition/Xinhua News Agency
As soon as the result came out, AlphaGo AlphaGo can be said to be famous all over the world and made headlines at home and abroad.
Ke Jie posted a post before the game about artificial intelligence. Although artificial intelligence shows strong strength, they do not have the enthusiasm and love for Go. /Sina Weibo
This time, can human "strongest brain" defeat artificial intelligence? What do you think?
