The game "Arinaa was designed by Omar Syed to be difficult for computers to solve, he invented it to spur the improvement of artificial intelligence software and so offered a $10,000 prize to the inventor of a software program that could defeat any human player; however there were some restrictions on the offer. Syed believes that even now a supercomputer might be able to defeat any human so he insists that the program be run on inexpensive off the shelf components. Also the $10,000 prize offer is only good until 2020 because Syed figures that after that even a cheap home computer will have supercomputer ability and so writing a champion Arinaaprogram wouldn't be much of a challenge.
None of this indicates a inherent weakness of computers to me, in fact just the opposite. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
