# After AI beat them, professional go players got better and more creative

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## What Jamie wrote

It is cool to see how professional Go players have adapted since [AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol](https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/03/12/alphago-machines-have.html).

> After a few years, the weakest professional players were better than the strongest players before AI. The strongest players pushed beyond what had been thought possible.

And they weren't copying the AI.

> And it wasn't simply that they imitated the AI, in a mechanical way. They got more creative, too. There was an uptick in historically novel moves and sequences. [Shin et al](https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2214840120) calculate about 40 percent of the improvement came from moves that could have been memorized by studying the AI. But moves that deviated from what the AI would do also improved, and these "human moves" accounted for 60 percent of the improvement.

AI shattering the preconceptions caused players to through out the old and reinvent their game. Very cool.

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