If taken literally as a scale of Go skill, the stone difference interestingly implies that pros are clustered near a “ceiling”of (human) play. Given that Zen19 has in fact kept getting better, maybe that’s interpretation has more merit than I would have thought.
The pro’s certainly believe that they are clustered that way.
It would be interesting to see how much stones AlphaGo can currently give a pro and still win but unfortunately Google doesn’t seem to be interested in finding out.
If taken literally as a scale of Go skill, the stone difference interestingly implies that pros are clustered near a “ceiling”of (human) play. Given that Zen19 has in fact kept getting better, maybe that’s interpretation has more merit than I would have thought.
The pro’s certainly believe that they are clustered that way.
It would be interesting to see how much stones AlphaGo can currently give a pro and still win but unfortunately Google doesn’t seem to be interested in finding out.