Let me clear one thing up... I mean, a professional go player. A rough approximation of what the human brain is capable of when it is optimized for go compared with a computer that has its software optimized (not limited by programming ability and programmer time) for go.
On 1/23/07, Joshua Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My 500mhz computer beats me fairly easy ;) with Gnugo so depends on the person you're comparing. -Josh On 1/23/07, Nick Apperson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is something I have been wrestling with. It is kind of a theoretical > question. Assuming a program that utilizes all avaliable resources > perfectly. It plays the best game you could ever program it to play. How > fast would the computer have to be to beat a human? I could see people > argue that if the program had enough knowledge it could be a pretty slow > computer (less than 100 Mhz), I could also see someone state the reality > that our brains (when you sum up the computational power of an entire > thinking brain) have way more processing power than a cluster of high > performance workstations and so technology isn't able to provide computer > hardware that would be fast enough. I think I vastly underestimate the > human brain, but I would say a computer with perfect software, 32 GB of RAM > (so a lot) and a 300 Mhz processor (slow processor) would be able to beat a > human. Thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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