i find it quite interesting that all of this speculation is geared toward saying that something unfair toward humans was happening.
in reality, the humans beat the machine to the buzzer more than once, the machine had to actuate a physical buzzer, everyone had the same amount of time to read and process the question (even i can read the displayed question and finish thinking about whether i know the answer before alex stops speaking, which is when they start checking the buzzers). so just to be clear, here is a short list of the ways in which everything was the same: the machine and humans got to see the question at the same time (it is displayed for the humans, opened as a file by the machine). yes, alex speaks the question. but even i can make a decision about whether or not i know the answer before he finishes talking. nobody gets to hit the buzzer before they are signaled that it is time. a human sends this signal. if anyone tries to buzz in before this time, they get penalized with a delay. the machine actuated a real physical buzzer, just like the people did. here is a short list of the ways in which the machine had an advantage: there may have been a 50ms delay inbetween intending to hit the buzzer and hitting it for the humans that was shorter for the machine. here is a short list of the ways in which the humans had an advantage: they are HUMAN and can UNDERSTAND the questions. jesus. s. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
