The competition between Alpha Go, an artificial intelligence that plays the board game Go, and Ke Jie, a world’s number one professional Go player of 9 dan rank, might surprisingly end in a flash. The third match of AlphaGo and Ke Jie in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, China, is around the corner, taking place next week from 23rd through 27th. According to Yoo Chang-Hyuk (9 dan rank), Secretary General of Korea Baduk Association, the event organizers have been busy creating a festival atmosphere of Go in effort to draw attention away from the human’s complete defeat.
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The reality of Korean educational and economic situations are so vulnerable in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Let’s take a look at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data analyzed by Pi-Touch Institute. The Reading Literacy of 15-year-old students averaged 525 points, which is in the highest group among the 30 OECD member countries, but the level of top 5% students was 629, which is in the lowest group with 4~5 member countries including Mexico and Greece. Entering the 21st century, top-tier companies such as Google, Apple, and Samsung have made steady progress, and high-income jobs with creativity requirement have been focused on top talents, and consequently, not only the lower level manpower but also the middle level manpower have been replaced by artificial intelligence (AI).Some explains that 'the university entrance rate of 70% have rather encouraged the mass production of studious students through the pubic eduction system of cramming and memorizing'. (Director La, Jung Joo)
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