Jack Ma: 'Don't do things like AlphaGo'

Machines should do what humans can't. Take a recent hot topic as an example: Ke Jie's Go match with Google AlphaGo.

In addition to his role as chairman of a large corporation, Alibaba star Jack Ma regularly offers advice on cutting-edge technology. Speaking at the Big Data exhibition in Guiyang, Ma discussed how developers and researchers at centers like Google’s DeepMind have narrowed the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI).

Speaking at the exhibition, Mr. Ma said:

“I think machines should have their own way of thinking. Machines should do what humans cannot do. Take a recent hot topic as an example: Ke Jie's Go match with Google AlphaGo.

I really don’t support this, especially when it comes from Chinese companies: Don’t do something like AlphaGo. It’s pointless. Because there are so many things you can do [with artificial intelligence]. Playing Go is basically just a game. It’s all about waiting for your opponent to make a mistake and then taking advantage of it. But machines never make mistakes.

They are logical, objective, and faster than you. You think three steps ahead, but they think three hundred. And they never make mistakes! So what’s the problem? [AlphaGo] takes away our joy and humiliates us. We will never beat it. I thought so from the moment it was created.

Humans should admit it. We will never have more muscle than a crane. From day one, we need to understand: We will never run faster than a train or a plane. Since the invention of computers, we may feel that we need to re-define because in terms of calculation, storage, logic and endurance, we will never beat them.

So I think that's something that humans need to think about. Machines need to have their own ways and methods, their own way of thinking, that can integrate with humans, animals and everything, giving machines their own way of thinking so that they can do things that humans can't do."

According to ICTNews