Thanks! In that case, the thing you say about KataGo can be strengthened:
> I'm sure it could still beat a fair number of human players.
KataGo can reliably beat any human player while giving them a handicap. The best pros lose a majority of games to a handful of top AI while receiving a 2 stone handicap, and are not locks to win with 3 stones.
Note: they did test two variants of KataGo, with and without search (search is very beneficial). Both versions are quite strong, and they had good results against both but they had their best results against the non-search version.
> I'm sure it could still beat a fair number of human players.
KataGo can reliably beat any human player while giving them a handicap. The best pros lose a majority of games to a handful of top AI while receiving a 2 stone handicap, and are not locks to win with 3 stones.
Note: they did test two variants of KataGo, with and without search (search is very beneficial). Both versions are quite strong, and they had good results against both but they had their best results against the non-search version.