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rybthrow2 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

I suppose this is how Lee Sedol felt when AlphaGo beat him. But in the same vein, didn't it ultimately advance human understanding of the game?

Timwi 17 days ago [–]

No. Just because the AI beats you, you don't automatically know how it did it. You can't easily learn from it just by observing it.

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