Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

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South Korean Go grandmaster Shin Jin-seo managed to defeat the high-level AI KataGo by utilizing a two-stone handicap, marking a rare human victory in the post-AlphaGo era. While AI remains superhuman at equal footing, experts are studying how human intuition can still exploit specific 'blind spots' or edge cases in neural network patterns. This highlight's the ongoing challenge of making reinforcement learning models truly robust against creative outliers.