On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:09:51AM -0700, Dave Dyer wrote:
> I take the observation that human players lose at first, then rapidly learn
> to win against the best programs to be evidence that the programs have
> systematic weaknesses.
I think we have no good, statistically meaningful statistics to
confirm this observation so far. It would be very nice if someone looked
at this more seriously and examine this with real scientific rigor.
There is a large body of games against a lot of random people (and many
of them being notorious bot-players) available in the KGS archives.
> The mono-culture that is developing, with all programs using variations on
> monte carlo, is just driving the herd (of programs) up a blind alley.
So what would you do about that? ;-)
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The true meaning of life is to plant a tree under whose shade
you will never sit.
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