To me, this post suffers from ignoring the present state of the art. Kata Go is designed to help people learn Go. Kata Go does so by providing the player with information about the expected board value, so that it not only tells you which move is best but provides you a lot more feedback.
While it’s theoretically possible that this focus on maximizing points that’s different than what AlphaGo did leads to worse play in some circumstances, there’s no good way to tell apriori whether Kata Go plays worse because it cares about the expected value of different moves.
To me, this post suffers from ignoring the present state of the art. Kata Go is designed to help people learn Go. Kata Go does so by providing the player with information about the expected board value, so that it not only tells you which move is best but provides you a lot more feedback.
While it’s theoretically possible that this focus on maximizing points that’s different than what AlphaGo did leads to worse play in some circumstances, there’s no good way to tell apriori whether Kata Go plays worse because it cares about the expected value of different moves.