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Go Spotting: Brain Myths Exploded

"In Lecture 24 of her course Brain Myths Exploded (available at The Great Courses.com) entitled Does Technology Make You Stupid? Indre Viskontas uses Go to support her thesis that the answer to the title question is no," writes Joel Sanet. "After spending about a minute and a half (at minute 23) describing Go in which she calls it 'the most complex game ever devised by our species' and 'the pinnacle of human intelligence,'" she points out AlphaGo's defeat of Lee Sedol. However, in defense of her position she also mentions Fan Hui's statement that playing against AlphaGo has made him a better Go player."