This article at Wired is about Go playing computers: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/gobrain.html Includes a pic of a 24 node cluster at Santa Cruz, and a YouTube video of a famous game set to music :-)
My beef, which started with Ken Thompson saying he was disappointed by how little we learned about human cognition from chess computers, is about statements like this: "People hoped that if we had a strong Go program, it would teach us how our minds work. But that's not the case," said Bob Hearn<http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Erah/>, a Dartmouth College artificial intelligence programmer. "We just threw brute force at a program we thought required intellect." And yet the article points out: [our brain is an]...efficiently configured biological processor — sporting 1015 neural connections, capable of 1016 calculations per second Our brains do brute-force massively distributed computing. We just aren't conscious of most of it. Peter
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