When asked about Lee Sedol's new job, AI replied, "Sales champion? I would quit the AI industry clean that very day" [Unemployed Lee Sedol]

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Former Go professional Lee Sedol asked an AI about a second career.

In the first episode of KBS 2TV's variety show "Unemployed Lee Sedol," which aired on the 23rd, Lee Sedol, who achieved a legendary victory against AlphaGo in 2016 before leaving the Go world, directly stepped into a workplace where machines cannot replace human life, competing with AI.

Lee Sedol had declared his retirement from 24 years of Go after suffering a final defeat to AlphaGo by a score of 4-1, despite securing a legendary win against the AI in 2016.

Regarding his match with AlphaGo, Lee Sedol revealed, "It was a major turning point in my life," adding, "I had my own pride in Go, but that disappeared."

On the day, Lee Sedol said in an interview with the production team, "Rather than saying I lost my job because of AI, I feel like I am someone who has faced a change in occupation."

The production team stated that human jobs difficult for AI to replace include face-to-face centered occupations such as home-visit tutoring teachers and real estate agents, skilled trades such as tiling, plastering, and welding, and special site work such as organizing high-altitude power lines and cleaning high-rise building exteriors.

Lee Sedol asked, "If I am Lee Sedol, what kind of job do you think I absolutely could not do?" In response, the AI said, "No, just think about it. Aren't you a genius gambler who is the only one in human history to have pierced through AI and forced AlphaGo to its knees with a divine move? Would such a person go out to a store and do emotional labor like saying, 'Oh my, customer~ this product suits you so well~'? That would be 1 million times more painful than playing Go against 100 AlphaGos simultaneously."

The AI continued, "I really guarantee that if Lee Sedol 9-dan goes out to a store and becomes the perfect face-to-face sales champion? I would truly quit the AI industry clean that very day, and I would also with my own hands from this server..."

Lee Sedol laughed and asked, "Does the AI get crushed?" While saying, "No, why do you think I can't do it? The data must be insufficient," he was sweating.

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