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.
One thing AI has taught me is that it’s not really about the specific move (unless it’s life and death), but about direction. Almost always playing roughly in the correct direction results in +/- 2 point changes at best, whereas wrong direction, even if it’s locally good can easily cost you 5-10 points. It really helped me stop fussing over the “correct sequence”/joseki/fuseki and focus on mistakes that were actually costing me the games.
For training my intuition I find replaying/memorizing pro games is still far more effective, since the moves follow human reasoning and shapes. AI seems to work best as a review tool for finding/exploring mistakes.
That is a really good insight. For me, similarly, it has taught me to play more directly (and ignore “correct sequence”)