I’ve been using AI to review my games for a while, but how do you personally use AI to learn?

I’ve found it really helpful in strengthening my joseki as well as general game-sense/intuition. Re-training myself on which moves feel correct.

One weird result has been that a lot of my intuitions that I used to brush away in favor of moves that I felt were more big-brained, turned out to be the moves that the AI prefers. So I’m having to work through when I’m overthinking moves.

The main problem I find is that it is so much better than I am that I can’t understand the logic sometimes - so I walk away with “Well, that move was just better, I guess” and fail to get a good understanding.

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    2 years ago

    I can say quite a lot about players and students shouldn’t use AI to learn, like you shouldn’t use AI to judge every 0.1 or 0.5% winrate loss or even just mistakes differ less than 2 or 3 points. Or try to research branches in joseki that have similar winrate, and just pick whatever without understanding the surrounding stones associated with each choice, or just try to justify overplay in your own games, despite it creates early fighting or variations that you obviously aren’t prepared for (like don’t jump out and simplify the situation and insist on fighting it out, without the reading skill). If you cannot follow the logic, even for pro’s moves/tesuji, that would confuse you and even make you play worse, since if you cannot internalize them, it would simply put doubt in your own judgements.

    You have to be able to play them out much further down the line to see where the punishment lies in these recommendations, or they won’t mean a thing or be helpful. A number is just a number and during the game, you won’t magically get a sense of these numbers in your head. You will still need to see the shapes and reading them out. Help to find local weak spots are probably the best use. But be sure to settled positions elsewhere, or use localized suggestion filters, to help only finding those local position analysis. For the whole board judgement, players usually need to be high dan or above to really appreciate the reason for early tenuki, and leaving aji.