I don’t believe they are that comparable. For starters, an average Chess game lasts somewhere around 20 moves, whereas an average Go game lasts closer to 200 − 300 moves. This is just one example of why a Go playing computer didn’t reliably beat a professional Go player until 15 or so years after a chess playing computer beat a GM.
That’s evidence for it being harder to know what a Go bot knows than to know what a chess bot does, right? And if I’m understanding Go correctly, those years were at least a significant part due to computational constraints, which would imply that better transparency tools or making them more human-understandable still wouldn’t go near letting a human know what they know, right?
Yes to your first question. Yes to the second question, but with the caveat that Go playing AI are still useful for certain tasks in terms of helping develop a players game, but with limitations. Will a human player ever fully understand the game of Go period, much less the way an AI does? No I don’t think so.
I don’t believe they are that comparable. For starters, an average Chess game lasts somewhere around 20 moves, whereas an average Go game lasts closer to 200 − 300 moves. This is just one example of why a Go playing computer didn’t reliably beat a professional Go player until 15 or so years after a chess playing computer beat a GM.
That’s evidence for it being harder to know what a Go bot knows than to know what a chess bot does, right? And if I’m understanding Go correctly, those years were at least a significant part due to computational constraints, which would imply that better transparency tools or making them more human-understandable still wouldn’t go near letting a human know what they know, right?
Yes to your first question. Yes to the second question, but with the caveat that Go playing AI are still useful for certain tasks in terms of helping develop a players game, but with limitations. Will a human player ever fully understand the game of Go period, much less the way an AI does? No I don’t think so.