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— Frank Lantz (@flantz.bsky.social) August 24, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Great, and long discussion about Go and how the AI works:
Part of the reason it’s very strong is that Go players like it a lot. KataGo had a great innovation where it’s actually accounting for points, which is how humans judge the game: by counting points. The prior AIs were sort of doing something else, which is related to counting points when they judge win rate, but not actually telling you a point estimate. So when KataGo started counting points, and people could read that point estimate and learn from it, KataGo was immediately more useful as an educational tool than any of the prior AIs had been.