Thoughts on the S. Korean Chess champion’s loss to the computers, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“Because the man had lost doesn’t mean that mankind has lost”, we should give commends to the South Korean chess champion, Lee Se-dol. Today, they will have the final face-off of the game, and, even if man won against the computer program: AlphaGo, the final scores still showed, that the computers had won over. The human brains are not as smart as the computers, other than feeling the shocks, the issue of “pride” surfaced, and this, is the unique problem of mankind.
Thanks to the AlphaGo system, it’d made us rethink how the human brains are different from the computers.
The founder of Netflix, Hastings once said, “the future of intelligence would be a competition between the carbon-based life forms (humans) and the machines”. But, although humans can be dissolved into a dozen of elements, but it doesn’t tell us: why humans can love, can hate, can feel pride, self-abasement, would be willing to sacrifice oneself for the sakes of others, forgiving toward others, and cry for others as well?
the picture of what an artificial neural network looks like…
Humans are not calculators. And AlphaGo that beat the human chess player is, it’s a “series” of super computer, utilizing its neural-like network, calculated every single one of its step, this, is only a rational kind of tool. And, if humans became like a computer, only know how to calculate, and compute, with the rationalities, then, there wouldn’t be Lin, who’d written out his love to his wife, as he was about to head off to fight in a war that he’s not returning home from, and as he was fighting on the battlefields, his heart was tied to his child far away. And, without people like Lin, there would be Taiwan. If people like Lin are like computers with just the rationalism of the tools, would he, abandon his own family, and “sacrificed himself among the millions”? What sort of brains are those? It’s the human brain.
If the computers are more precise than the human brains, and wouldn’t have bad faces, we’d longed for a mechanical doctor like this. But, it couldn’t replace an alternative kind of doctor. I’d once seen a single mother who was diagnosed with breast cancer, and her son in his twenties was so shocked that he’d started to cry, and the doctor tapped him on the shoulders, “On the day of operation, you need to go to work and not worry, just put your mother in my hands.”, and this doctor is a famous mastectomy surgeon, the director of the medical center. And, an A.I. doctor simply can’t replace a good doctor like this one.
this, is what the future looks like…
And, whether or not man is to get replaced by the machines, the key determinant is the humans. The C.E.O. of Tesla worried about “calling on the devil”, and the key here, is still man. Everything is connected together, and everything CAN be HACKED into, we’re all worried, but, we just can’t, seem to log off and get off line. And the reason why we’re all so worried is because of this lack in human, not the machines. History has, shown us that, hasn’t it?
And so, the problem is still man, because we’d invented a TON of things that would help us live from day to day, we’d grown reliant on these machines, but, we don’t realize, that the machines can only DO what we tell them to, and, that just shows, how the human brain is still better than the machines, and, so, no worries on being “replaced” anytime soon here…