>Humans are many magnitudes more efficient at improving a skill
In the case of go, most definitely not. AlphaGo Zero achieved world-beating performance in just three days, running on four TPUs. Becoming a world class player cost somewhere in the region of 150kWh.
A fairly sedentary human requires about 2.5kWh of food per day. Achieving mastery of go takes at least 10 years of full-time study, so we're looking at a bare minimum of ~9000kWh. That excludes the energy inputs to make that food (often orders of magnitude higher) and the multitude of other energy inputs required to keep a human being healthy and sane.
In the case of go, most definitely not. AlphaGo Zero achieved world-beating performance in just three days, running on four TPUs. Becoming a world class player cost somewhere in the region of 150kWh.
A fairly sedentary human requires about 2.5kWh of food per day. Achieving mastery of go takes at least 10 years of full-time study, so we're looking at a bare minimum of ~9000kWh. That excludes the energy inputs to make that food (often orders of magnitude higher) and the multitude of other energy inputs required to keep a human being healthy and sane.