[htrp]

From the article:

>“Losing to A.I., in a sense, meant my entire world was collapsing,” he said in a recent interview with The New York Times.

>Mr. Lee had a hard time accepting the defeat. What he regarded as an art form, an extension of a player’s own personality and style, was now cast aside for an algorithm’s ruthless efficiency. --------

He also retired 3 years later and has had some time to reflect on the situation.

For people whose sole source of identity is their job/profession, Lee Saedol is a cautionary tale.

What used to take a dedicated research team and millions of dollars of compute (to play professional go), can now be done with a sub $1 gpt4 call (to do something like make strategy slides).

[mathsmath]

> What used to take a dedicated research team and millions of dollars of compute (to play professional go), can now be done with a sub $1 gpt4 call (to do something like make strategy slides).

Is that an accurate statement, though? AFAIK, the Go-AI was hyper-specific to Go. I don’t think any LLM would approach the level of skill exhibited by those specialized AIs (much less provide valid moves for an entire game in my experience).

[htrp]

I'd say if you are a copywriter, your job is effectively already gone of you aren't using transformer based large language models

[Slyfox33]

What? LLMs are definitely not used to play go even close to this level.