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 against Google AlphaGo.

In addition to his role as chairman of a large corporation, Alibaba star Jack Ma often gives advice on cutting-edge technology. Speaking at the Big Data exhibition in the city of Guiyang, Ma mentioned how developers and researchers at centers such as 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 can’t do. Take a recent hot topic as an example: Ke Jie’s Go match against 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 a mistake! So what’s the problem? [AlphaGo] takes away our joy and humiliates us. We can 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 be clear: 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 computation, 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."

According to ICTNews