Purpose

The Go AI, which was thought to have sufficiently outperformed humans, has also been found to be flawed, exposing the possibility that the world that the Go AI was seeing was only a local minimum of the profound game of Go. The Go AI using deep learning was supposed to be steadily getting stronger, but there is still room for doubt as to whether it is a sufficient method in the pursuit of truth. The evolutionary path of the Go AI may not have reached the fifth station yet. For artificial intelligence research, the Go AI will continue to present a variety of problems yet to be solved. We would like to continue to develop this tournament as a scope to look into the profound world beyond. COVID-19 has also come to an end, and starting in 2023, we will return to our original face-to-face convention, an event where developers come together. We hope that this will be an event where participants can interact openly and enjoyably as it has been in the past. April 6, 2024 Executive Committee Chairman, Takeshi Ito (University of Electro-Communications)