What did that profound sense of powerlessness feel like, exactly?
Wang Qi remembered that in the last few years of his memories from Earth, something major had happened. An artificial intelligence created by a massive corporation had mastered the art of Go through self-learning, gaining Go techniques beyond brute-force enumeration.
Though it was only a weak AI, though it definitely could not pass the Turing test, though once it stepped outside the domain of "Go," it could do nothing at all. Still...
Within the domain of Go, it had truly reached a realm humans—at least Earth humans—could not comprehend. Seemingly meaningless idle moves in the opening could actually turn the tide a hundred moves later.
That was something Earthlings could absolutely not do. Even if they understood the techniques contained within that game of Go, they still could not calculate that far ahead.
At the beginning of the match, every human Go master believed the AI was making one terrible move after another.
But in reality? That AI's skill at Go was no longer in the same quadrant as the human masters'.
This was a strategy humanity could never understand.
Perhaps, at certain times, humans could still break free of the misdirection of exquisite schemes, weave deceptions across the board, and claw back one or two games under particular circumstances. But those stratagems would soon be understood by the AI.
Yet humans could not learn the AI's Go.
Their innate perspectives were different.
These things were not merely calculators with enhanced computational power. They truly possessed intelligence, and that intelligence truly allowed them to see futures human Go masters could not see.
When those human masters saw such arrangements, or spent days reviewing and analyzing those games, what did they feel?
The feeling of having a "new world" revealed before