AI Reports · MIT FutureTech · 2026-10-17 · Research paper
Standing on the Shoulders of AI: Pushing the Knowledge Frontier by Learning from AI Research on Go matches from 2003 through 2021 illustrates how interactions between human professionals and artificia
The authors analyzed every move in 69,974 professional Go games from 2003 to 2021 to study how human players and AI interact to create new knowledge. After AI-powered Go programs surpassed the best human player in 2017, professionals changed their first moves and first invasion moves and adopted different standard opening patterns. However, this AI-driven knowledge came with more concentrated and less diverse moves, and the effect was greater for highly skilled players.