Don Dailey wrote: > It converges at perfect play. Thinking that it just happens to > converge at the exact limits of current hardware is sort of like > thinking the earth is the center of the universe just because this is > where we happen to be right now. In 20 years with hardware 100x faster > or more (assuming that happens) I'm sure people will also be saying > that we have reached convergence. I saw this happen over a period of > about 20 years in computer chess, it was always the same, computers > have pretty much reached their limit and we need to try something > else. Eventually people wised up, but it took a while. Now it starts > all over again with Go.
There is a very big difference between saying "Computers have pretty much reached their limit" and saying that a particular implementation (with particular tuning parameters) doesn't get significantly stronger when given more time. -M- _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
