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NYT Story On Go Programs And AI
mykej writes: "The NYT (registration required, blah blah) has a story on Go, the hardest game for computers to play. From the article: 'Programmers working on Go see it as more accurate than chess in reflecting the ineffable ways in which the human mind works. The challenge of programming a computer to mimic that process goes to the core of artificial intelligence, which involves the study of learning and decision-making, strategic thinking, knowledge representation, pattern recognition and, perhaps most intriguingly, intuition.' There are a few throwaway lines about Nash from 'A Beautiful Mind,' although they don't mention the game he invented after getting frustrated with the inconsistencies of go."
Must not have been any fires or people trapped in a hole or anything today. That would've been more interesting. Anybody who thinks they understand how the human brain works because they can program a calculator on steroids to play chess or whatever is certainly lacking the authentic form of intelligence. For these people the artificial kind is all they can hope to attain.
I believe you misunderstand his post. He is merely pointing out differences between the games... it is not an issue of better or worse but rather differences. You cannot contests that there is a big difference between the style of play, the board and the way that the game is viewed/commercialized.
Chess has been archived so that every great master has his style emulated by a computer. Computers learn chess easier because there is more to draw on and less probability to calculate.
I agree about the last comment re: 20-30moves.
But he is not making imbalanced better/worse comparisons but rather highlighting the differences!
:)