anwhile, tension gripped the upper ranks of Gooble.
It was all because Stark had abruptly released the LLM used in the “Fridge Demo.”
Its na was “MindChat.”
[The infrastructure isn’t quite ready yet, so we can’t officially launch the service. Think of this as a trial experience. Also, due to the imnse computational power required to process each question, we kindly ask for your understanding that the service must be paid.]
Five dollars per question.
Even with the limitation of only one question per person per day, the traffic never stopped.
SNS was flooded with user experiences, and the public was ecstatic each ti.
Write a breakup text.
We’re overheating just from booting up now.
We tried to optimize for each other, patched for stability multiple tis, but in the end, we’re just incompatible systems. At so point, we both stopped updating and backing up.
Let’s just log out here.
—The fridge was an F type, but this one’s definitely a T...
—My CPU froze over in the anti;;
—Should’ve prefaced it with “To a human”... this one’s on the user
—Not bad? I saved this. Gonna use it soday.
—I just got dumped by an LLM and weirdly... I can’t let go.
Why don’t people reply to my ssages?
Because you send questions like this.
—Now that’s a one-hit kill sentence.
—This hit like a highlight reel of all my past conversations.
—That level of ego destruction should be illegal
—So sharp, it feels like laser surgery—but now my vision’s clearer
Each of MindChat’s responses spread as s, and before long, it beca a cultural phenonon.
To Gooble, it was an unmistakable crisis.
—At this rate… they’ll beco the symbol.
Symbols mattered.
Sotis even more than the technology.
People rember images before they rember performance.
The first brand to be etched into the market is seen as the ‘original,’ while latecors struggle to shake off the ‘copycat’ label.
Gooble couldn’t help but feel this was deeply unfair.
“They just entered the field and already...”
They had entered the market first and were even one step ahead technologically. Yet sohow, the most morable symbolic mont had been snatched away by Stark.
It was a disaster born of carelessness.
Gooble had assud that it was virtually impossible for a startup like Stark to build such overwhelming presence so quickly—and so they were caught completely off guard.
But there was a clear reason that impossibility had beco reality—
“It was Next AI after all...”
Founded just last year, Next AI had already gathered the best minds in the industry, and with Ha Si-heon’s massive financial backing, it had beco Gooble’s number one threat.
But they had let their guard down because of its “non-profit” label.
“To think they’d side with Stark...”
Technically speaking, the LLM revealed this ti was entirely the work of Next AI.
Though it was branded as a ‘collaboration’ with Stark, the reality was that Stark had simply taken the technology that Next AI handed over and presented it on stage.
Gooble never saw this kind of partnership coming, and so they were blindsided.
But they couldn’t afford to keep taking hits.
“What’s the status of AlphaGo? Even with the tiline moved up, there must be no mistakes.”
“There are no issues.”
Gooble’s secret weapon—AlphaGo.
This was the mont they had to prove their true capabilities.
***
A few days later, the long-awaited AlphaGo match day arrived.
Ahead of the ga, Gooble frad the match with this explanation:
[This showdown is an experint to determine which is superior: human supervised learning or AI reinforcent learning.]
Supervised Learning vs. Reinforcent Learning.
Because the concepts were unfamiliar, Gooble used cooking as an analogy to make them easier to understand.
[Humans learn by studying pre-labeled data. It’s like cooking with a recipe—ingredients, asurents, and steps are all laid out, so even beginners can cook a decent al by following it.]
[AlphaGo’s reinforcent learning is very different. Imagine being handed ingredients with no recipe or dish na. It learns by trial and error, gradually discovering the best flavor.]
Simply put: the match was between a chef who follows a recipe and one who cooks from scratch, blindly experinting.
Which chef would create the better dish?
This historic match in Seoul captured the world’s attention.
Most people naturally expected humans to prevail.
—Of course it’ll be the human. Go is a ga of intuition and insight.
—No way a machine can match that. The number of possibilities is insane...
—Then again, that fridge demo was impressive. I’m curious how far AI can really go.
But soon, shock and disbelief swept over them—
Contrary to expectations, Lee Sedol lost both the first and second gas.
And in the third ga, AlphaGo’s thod of victory was absolutely jaw-dropping.
[Wait... what the hell was that move?]
The comntator’s voice trembled.
The move AlphaGo made was bizarre.
It placed a stone in a spot seemingly unrelated to the current board situation—offering no visible strategic value.
[That has to be a mistake, right?]
[It appears so. There’s no other way to explain it.]
The comntators, the spectators, even Lee Sedol himself dismissed it as an error.
But after dozens of turns—
AlphaGo completely seized control of the ga.
Only then did the comntator cry out in disbelief.
[That move... it wasn’t a mistake! The entire current board state stemd from that one move!]
Indeed.
AlphaGo had predicted the ga would unfold this way and had laid the groundwork far in advance.
The comntator, unable to contain his excitent, exclaid:
[Humans rely on learned experience, so we tend to ignore statistically rare moves. It’s like not knowing how to cook with rare ingredients.]
[AlphaGo, however, can cook with anything!]
[Its range of choices is far wider than a human’s. It sees options we can’t even imagine!]
In this structure, AlphaGo was overwhelmingly advantaged.
It could master countless recipes that humans didn’t even know existed.
Could humans possibly beat such an opponent?
But Lee Sedol wasn’t going down easily.
In the next ga, he played a divine move—one even AlphaGo hadn’t predicted.
A daring stone placed in the heart of enemy territory before his own periter was secure—reckless on the surface.
But in the end, it was that very move that decided the ga.
[Lee Sedol wins! He’s taken a ga from AlphaGo, proving humanity’s strength!]
[That’s the kind of move only a human could make! AlphaGo would have ignored it due to its re 0.0007% chance of success, but humans don’t shy away from impossible odds—they fight and sotis win!]
Machines don’t attempt the impossible.
Humans, on the other hand, sotis turn the impossible into reality.
That divine move by Lee Sedol was one such miracle.
Humanity exhaled in relief.
At least in this one domain, humans could still claim superiority.
But that relief didn’t last long.
The match ended 4–1 in AlphaGo’s favor, and people gradually began to feel dread at its overwhelming dominance.
—The end of the human era has arrived!
—Tremble in fear, flesh creatures.
—My toaster asked this morning how “well done” I wanted my toast. I think it’s probing my weaknesses.
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