Hardware has a huge effect on go strength, but mainly by enabling better algorithms. MCTS would have been impossible on the 640 KB, 24 MHz, 80286 I used to develop Many Faces of go.
I think you would agree with me when I say that the stronger programs five years from now will gain that strength both from faster hardware and improved algorithms. I expect that five years from now, today's Mogo or today's Many Faces running on that hardware, will be rather weak compared to the top programs. David From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Don Dailey Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:27 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] MCTS, 19x19, hitting a wall? My basic observation is that over the several year period I have been in this forum, I have detected a huge amount of resistance to the idea that hardware could have anything to do with computer go strength, despite the fact that it keeps proving to be so. The resistance is strong enough that we have to explain it way when it happens, by saying things like we have hit a wall and it won't happen any more thank goodness. - Don
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