On 23/04/2017, B. Wilson wrote: > Would someone might weighing in on the current status of things in this > department? If I'm just missing something obvious,
as one who has a saudades affection for old MGs, i can empathise with people who want to keep an old steam engine going (all puns intended), even though she has long since been trampled upon by jackbooted masters of the blitzkrieg; GnuGo (GG) is to Adolfa as a cavalryman with a rusty old sword was to the first squadron of armoured tanks. It's just no contest, as Ke Jie is going to find out the hard way in a couple of weeks, when Alphago huffs and puffs and blows his house down. i see from the recent archives list that there is still a fair amount of interest around in dear old GG, who really belongs in a glass case in a museum rather than out on the streets where she is easy prey to an army of cloned muggers. For her day, GG was a jolly good effort, and had her original sculptors thought to let her look ahead a little, she might have done a whole heap better than she did. Except that she had a genetic defect - her basic perceptions suffered from acute myopia and astigmatism - she saw dragons where there were none, and was blind to the thousand cuts, because her wiring diagram was just too crude - sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. But all is not lost, for there is the icGo egg of a new kid gnu on the block; one that has a real chance of beating dcnn juggernauts at their own game; David vs Golalfa all over again. Or even if not, of taking AI in a new and more fruitful direction: one of cooperation rather than competition with people. Now isn't that the true spirit of Gnu? It's all here - or rather, that is, as much of it as i've thought up so far - it just needs a little help from GG's friends to gestate icGo and turn her from a gleam in a tired old man's dull eye into a sparkling brand new baby gnu. https://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/icgo PS despite floccinaucinihilipilification by blinkered brick bawds, the only thing icGo and GG have in common, apart from Go, is the spirit of Gnu. _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list gnugo-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
