Sometimes people need to be oriented in the general interst of the public. Vikas Kapoor, MSN Id:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yahoo+Skype Id: dl_vikas, Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Vipin Malhotra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Computers crack famous board game
I Only asked for mindless postings not for your advice to subscribe or to unsubscribe from some or the other group.! Vip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikas Kapoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Computers crack famous board game > Excuse me sir, You can unsubscribe from this group if you desire so, don't > shape other's minds with your frustration. > Vikas Kapoor, > MSN Id:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yahoo+Skype Id: dl_vikas, > Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr. Vipin Malhotra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:07 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] Computers crack famous board game > > > I just fail to understan, > Why group is being flooded with technology news > mindlessly without their > immediate relevance? > Time is precious for aal! Heart surgery or mind > surgery No where near > blindness or accessibility! > Though the situation is quite intreaguing but let us > take it mildly!! > Cheers! > Vip > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vikas Kapoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Access India" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 7:37 PM > Subject: [AI] Computers crack famous board game > > >> Computers crack famous board game >> Game of draughts (Eyewire) >> Draughts has about 500 billion billion potential > positions >> It could be a case of game over for draughts - > scientists say the ancient >> board game has finally been solved. >> >> A Canadian team has created a computer program that > can win or draw any >> game, no matter who the opponent is. >> >> It took an average of 50 computers nearly two > decades to sift through the >> 500 billion billion possible draughts positions to > come up with the >> solution. >> >> >> Writing in the journal Science, the team said it was > the most challenging >> game solved to date. >> >> Jonathan Schaeffer, lead author on the paper and > chair of the department >> of computer science at the University of Alberta, > Canada, told the BBC >> News website: >> "This was a huge computational problem to solve - > more than a million >> times bigger than anything that had ever been solved > before." >> >> Trial and error >> >> Professor Schaeffer, who admits he is "awful" at > draughts (also known as >> checkers), began his attempts to solve the board > game in 1989. >> >> He consulted champion players to find out more about > their game tactics >> and then fed this information into a computer > program called Chinook. >> I think we've raised the bar - and raised it quite a > bit - in terms of >> what can be achieved in computer technology and > artificial intelligence >> >> Professor Schaeffer >> >> Chinook looked at solving problems much like a human > does by using trial >> and error to find out what appeared to be the best > solutions. This is >> called a >> heuristic approach. >> >> However, Professor Schaeffer said that although the > program was extremely >> successful - it won the World Checkers Championship > in 1994 - it was not >> perfect >> and occasionally lost games. >> >> So the computer scientists tried another > non-heuristic tack, for which, >> over a number of years, hundreds of computers ran > through game upon game >> of draughts >> to work out the sequences that would lead to > winning, losing and drawing. >> >> Eventually, the new program gathered so much > information that it "knew" >> the best move to play in every situation. This meant > that every game it >> played led >> to a certain win, or, if its opponent played > perfectly, a draw. >> Chess pieces >> Chess may prove more tricky to solve >> >> Professor Schaeffer said: "I think we've raised the > bar - and raised it >> quite a bit - in terms of what can be achieved in > computer technology and >> artificial >> intelligence." >> >> With the vast number of playing possibilities, > draughts is the most >> complex game to have been solved to date - it was > about a million times >> more complicated >> to solve than Connect Four. >> >> Researchers are now hoping to move on to even bigger > problems. However, it >> seems that grand master of the board games - chess - > may remain unsolved >> for >> some time. >> >> It has somewhere in the range of a billion billion > billion billion billion >> possible positions, meaning that computers, with > their current capacity, >> would >> takes aeons to solve it. >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6907018.stm >> >> Vikas Kapoor, >> MSN Id:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yahoo+Skype Id: > dl_vikas, >> Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. >> To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make > any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search > that gives answers, not web links. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. 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