Hi Darren, Darren Cook: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have a question. Why do you all call the game as "human vs. >> computer"? It's obviously a match between Kim 8p and MoGo, a program >> developped by MoGo team, running on a supercomputer. > >Quick answer: it is the established term. ("human-machine" is perhaps >even more common?)
Sure, it's the same here in Japan. >Longer answer: Mogo is on its own choosing moves; the programmers cannot >help it while it is playing. Similarly the human player is on his own >and not allowed to discuss positions with his teachers, students, go >books, etc. It does not change the fact MoGo was developped by the programmers. And the fact the programmers spent many resources, like the people fighting at Beijing right now, to develop MoGo. >(BTW, just about everybody here has congratulated the "Mogo team" not >Mogo. But the human side is the same: if the human player won an >important game and his parents were in the room people would go up and >shake their hand and say "Congratulations, you must be very proud.") (Really the same?) >> I'm afraid it may raise unnecessary emotional thoughts of against >> computers among people. > >People like that will get emotional whichever words you use. Don't you think it cannot be changed or, at least, improved? #Assuming we agree it's "unnecessary." Hideki -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kato) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/