On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: > Computers can still not beat the best go players but they are starting > to on small games this year, 4 years ago they could not beat medium to > new players. The change was not in computer power but in programming > technique. Computers are far faster than humans at almost any math or > logic. They have much better memories. They really are very flexible > as far as environments and being able to be reprogrammed for new > tasks. When combined with robots they can move much much faster than > we can.
It's some of both -- I think the real good Go programs tend to run on multiple-core machines, and even then they can only beat pros occasionally and only if the computer gets a handicap (sometimes a really big handicap). (I'm not a computer professional but I'm taking some AI courses at university and we talked about games a lot last year.) -- chuk _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
