Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread Olivier Teytaud
It's only a matter of time before MoGo becomes self-aware and destroys us all. ;) By the way, during the IAGO 2008 (meeting between mogo and Catalin Taranu), a very angry guy came during the preliminary games against amateur players and shouted that we were mixing war and art, and plenty of

Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:10 +0100, Olivier Teytaud wrote: y the way, during the IAGO 2008 (meeting between mogo and Catalin Taranu), a very angry guy came during the preliminary games against amateur players and shouted that we were mixing war and art, and plenty of other strange opinions

RE: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread David Fotland
Traffic to my site and igowin downloads jumped 20% yesterday, so the show did generate some interest in go. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of grok Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:19 PM To: computer-go Subject:

Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread terry mcintyre
From: David Fotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Traffic to my site and igowin downloads jumped 20% yesterday, so the [Sarah Conner] show did generate some interest in go. That's impressive, especially considering the fairly long search path between Go and igowin.

Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread Eric Dunham
Traffic to my site and igowin downloads jumped 20% yesterday, so the [Sarah Conner] show did generate some interest in go. Nice to hear. I just hope that these new players aren't thinking that Go is going to come up with the next killer AI and actually take some interest in the game. :) Eric

[computer-go] Re: flash crowd from TV

2008-11-26 Thread Dave Dyer
That's impressive, especially considering the fairly long search path between Go and igowin. It happens. One day recently I was idling at boardspace.net, when in the course a few minutes the site was overrun by about 30 guests, all speaking German and wanting to play Hex. It turned out that

RE: [computer-go] Re: flash crowd from TV

2008-11-26 Thread Denis fidaali
Speaking of hex ... I really think it would be a nice intermediary game before tackling the complexity of go. Do you know of any good community (and protocol equivalent to GTP) where i could start to look for submitting a bot ? Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:04:07 -0800 To:

Re: [computer-go] Re: flash crowd from TV

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Williams
I would start here: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/hex/ Denis fidaali wrote: Speaking of hex ... I really think it would be a nice intermediary game before tackling the complexity of go. Do you know of any good community (and protocol equivalent to GTP) where i could start to look for

[computer-go] Re: hex robot

2008-11-26 Thread Dave Dyer
At 01:31 PM 11/26/2008, Denis fidaali wrote: Speaking of hex ... I really think it would be a nice intermediary game before tackling the complexity of go. Do you know of any good community (and protocol equivalent to GTP) where i could start to look for submitting a bot ? There are a couple of

Re: [computer-go] Re: hex robot

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Williams
The Hex Wiki at http://www.hexwiki.org/index.php?title=Computer_Hex appears to contain some incorrect/dated information (Six is no longer the strongest). Here is another resource: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/papers/rptBeijing.pdf Dave Dyer wrote: At 01:31 PM 11/26/2008, Denis fidaali