Alibaba boss Jack Ma: AlphaGo 'meaningless'
- By Zhang Rui
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Jack Ma, the chairman and founder of Alibaba Group, speaks in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, May 26, 2017. [Photo/youth.cn] |
Chinese Go player Ke Jie, current world No. 1, has admitted defeats in his three duels against computer program AlphaGo in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, which ignited heavy online discussions regarding the future of mankind and AI.
But Ma weighed in and said: "Before the Go-match this time, many thought that the human will prevail over the machine; later when the human lost, they thought machines will prevail over man. But speaking for myself, I don't really care. I especially advised that many fellow enterprises should not develop such things as AlphaGo, it's meaningless, and we can do much more other useful things."
Ma also elaborated why he didn't like AlphaGo: "Go game is an interesting and fun thing, I can wait for my opponent to play wrong and I can win. But the machine never plays wrong and it can work out the next 300 steps while you can only think about the next three. It is not fun anymore, it deprives the biggest fun that makes us happy and then insults us."
"Machines must have its own special thinking and must do things human cannot do," Ma added, believing AI should work for humans to do useful things that human are unable to achieve, rather than just spoiling human's fun.
The Alibaba boss previously detested AlphaGo in April at the China IT Summit 2017 in Shenzhen, and said, "They all talked about how AlphaGo is terrific, but personally I felt, 'so what?' "
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