S4.9 - Why Creating a Great AI Go Teacher Isn't So Easy with Professor Marius Lindhauer | Go / Baduk / Weiqi

This episode is from All Things Go, a podcast about the board game Go, also known as Baduk in Korea and Weiqi in China.

Professor Marius Lindhauer explains why building a strong Go-playing AI is different from building an AI that teaches humans well. The conversation explores Hikaru no Go, early Go programs, human-centered AI, style-aware recommendations, understandable variations, AutoML, and the continuing need for human judgment.

Full transcript, related episodes, and additional resources:

https://allthingsgogame.com/2026/07/27/marius-lindauer-ai-go-teacher/

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Marius Interview

• Professor Marius Lindhauer
• The show Hikaru No Go
• The AlphaGo documentary

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