“Move 37 is an emblem of the AI revolution for two reasons. First, it demonstrated the alien nature of AI” … “Second, Move 37 demonstrated the unfathomability of AI.”
Yuval Noah Harari is the author of Sapiens — A Brief History Of Humankind.
Move 37 is important to the AI revolution for two reasons, Harari says. First, it demonstrated the alien nature of AI. In east Asia, Go is considered much more than a game. It is a treasured cultural tradition that has existed for more than 2,500 years. Yet AI, being free from the limitations of human minds, discovered and explored previously hidden areas that millions of humans never considered. Second, Move 37 demonstrated the unfathomability of AI. Even after AlphaGo played it to achieve victory, Suleyman and his team couldn’t explain how AlphaGo decided to play it. Suleyman wrote, “In AI, the neural networks moving toward autonomy are, at present, not explainable. GPT‑4, AlphaGo and the rest are black boxes, their outputs and decisions based on opaque and impossibly intricate chains of minute signals.” https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/27/how-move-37-revealed-the-perils-of-ai-yuval-noah-harari/