Interview with "Divine Pig" Luo Xihe: I hope that AI "Masterpiece" can one day become the god of Go

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What is it like to play chess with world champion Roche? This is impossible to describe, perhaps we should interview the Korean king Choi Chul-han, known as the "poisonous snake", when he turned a famous "three robbery cycle" into a losing game in the semi-final of the Ying's Cup, completing a game of ancient famous games, and also completing the Roching River, and the "sacred pig" has since had a new name, called "robber king".

What is it like to talk to the forty-year-old Roche? This can be summed up with big data, in short, he is good at using turns, and every "turn" is quite humorous. For example, when the entire chess world was envious of his IQ index as high as 164 (the average chess player only has 110, 164 is almost exclusive to great scientists), he suddenly wanted to stand up and clarify - "Yes, the first test was 164, but then it was measured again, I remember only more than 120." ”

In Yang County, Shaanxi Province, as one of the planners of the Sino-Korean summit final of "Huayang on the Tao, Who is the Battle", Luo Xianhe accepted an exclusive interview with this newspaper. At the end of the most impressive dialogue, when the author asked "will you still participate in professional competitions in the future", he was dazed, thought about it, and suddenly laughed: "Now playing chess seems to have no idea of having to win, from this point of view, I should 'evolve' from a professional chess player to an amateur chess player, huh." ”

The following is the interview transcript, there is a lot of content for the domestic top Go artificial intelligence "masterpiece", Go lovers can pay relative attention to it.

West China Metropolis Daily - Cover News: "Huayang On the Tao" Championship is held in the "Hometown of the Crested Ibis" Yangxian Huayang Scenic Area, Ke Jie to Li Shishi, very sensational, the original intention of this competition, is to give Ke Jie a chance to avenge the "Haibiqi Cup"?

Luo Xiehe: This game has long been planned, it was planned from the end of last year to the beginning of January this year, and it had nothing to do with the 'Haibic Cup' held in South Korea, of course, after Ke Jie lost the 'Haibiqi' Cup, we suddenly thought about the possibility of another revenge battle. So, what if Ke Jie loses again? Will there be a bad impact? Ke Jie also considered this, but Hu Ruian, the secretary of the Yang County Party Committee, said directly when communicating with Ke Jie: Don't be afraid of losing when you come to Huayang Scenic Area to play chess, because when we undertook the Weijia (Xi'an Qujiang Team had two home games arranged here in that year), we were already used to losing, and it didn't matter. Oh, the game was done like this, and there was a good result. ”

West China Metropolis Daily - Cover News: Are you now settling in Shenzhen because you have become a consultant for Tencent's artificial intelligence "Masterpiece"?

Luo Xiehe: This is not true, I went to Shenzhen from Beijing in 2016, mainly because of the air quality, I have rhinitis. After going there for two months, Tencent found me and asked me to be a consultant for "Absolute Art", I thought this was a very good job, so I took it. Before it was really tired, to help find bugs or something, now it is much easier, "masterpiece" has been on the right track, it will slowly become stronger. Consultants and consultants, there are only those who ask questions, so now I don't need to go to the company every day, and I am generally free.

West China Metropolis Daily - Cover News: What is the ultimate goal of The "masterpiece" of Go artificial intelligence? Become the god of Go? How strong is it now, that is, how big is the gap between the top professional masters and it?

Rochehe: The algorithm of "Absolute Art" is borrowed from AlphaGo's paper, which is beyond doubt, if one day can become the god of Go in the future, it is of course the best, and it should indeed be a goal, but this can not be confirmed, right? Go is so vast and profound, no one knows where the "masterpiece" can finally go. For now, I personally think that the latest version of the "absolute art" if the top professional masters first, human beings can not hold, but if you let 2 sons, the current "absolute art" loss is a little bigger, let it not move.

West China Metropolis Daily - Cover News: Explaining the "masterpiece" of the chess game online has almost become the criterion for professional and amateur masters to study the chess game, is it the latest and strongest version?

Roche: Of course not the strongest version, I think it may be a need for secrecy. However, I think that in the state of the first, there is no professional master who can beat this version, that is to say, the explanation of this "masterpiece" is quite reliable.

West China Metropolis Daily - Cover News: The online name you often use for online games is "Lu Chengxuan", is there any allusion to this?

Luo Xiehe: It is the name of the protagonist in the online game "Xuanyuan Sword", first, I liked to play this online game when I was young, and now it has changed, I only play how fast and good the stand-alone version is, and second, I think this name is good, it is as simple as that.

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