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This webpage is rather more informative:

https://goattack.far.ai/human-evaluation

allowing one to replay all games. It looks like the strategy involves letting the computer completely surround a group with 2 eyes, and then depriving that surrounding group of 2 eyes (which the AI appears to be blind to).

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I thought Kasparov had a perfectly reasonable argument that in a human v human contest, the players and any coaches have access to a public record of all previous contests the opponent participated in, and can use this information to prepare for a match. Deep Blue had Kasparov's record, but he didn't have Deep Blue's record, which is lopsided.

You are always exploiting the flaws of your opponent in these games. Winning is a matter of exploiting more than you have been exploited.

Exactly. Human player are never given enough of a chance to exploit the AIs. When an OP strategy exists in the metagame literally the whole playerbase tries to exploit it, which is how the metagame evolves. No such process exists for playing against AIs.

> depriving that surrounding group of 2 eyes (which the AI appears to be blind to)

Completely blind or just lacking depth perception?

I think it has learned that stones completely within your own ring of stones are dead and can just be assumed part of your own eyespace. It has just failed to learn the exceptional case where such stones form 2 eyes.

Funny, seeing with two eyes is needed for depth perception. Pretty sure that was a really subtle joke from the user above you :)

Oh, (only) now I see the joke:-!

I was somehow relating the word depth to search depth...

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