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 o

Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Williams
Probably John Connor. Olivier Teytaud wrote: 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 t

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 opin

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 > Sub

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 D

Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread Bob Hearn
On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Eric Dunham wrote: 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. :) And let's hope they can do better than the terminator, and not play every stone in contac

Re: [computer-go] Skynet likes Go

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Williams
I can't tell (from watching in non-HD) whether the stones were placed on the intersections or on the squares (like Othello/Reversi), but I'm assuming they also got that wrong. Bob Hearn wrote: On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Eric Dunham wrote: I just hope that these new players aren't thinking

[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 ou

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: computer-go@computer-

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 s

[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 o

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