Re: Turing test

[Barry Phease <barryp@xxxxxxxx>]

Martin Mueller wrote:
> 
> Here is a little puzzle for you all:
> a game record between a person and a computer program. Now which is which,
> and why? Please try to form an opinion by looking only at the moves played,
> even if you happen to know the game already. If you were the human playing
> or if you were writing the program, what would you do differently?

OK. I guess that black is the computer.  It seems to play more
consistent shape moves in the opening, and fewer gross mistakes in the
early endgame.  Of course if you didn't tell me that one was a computer
I probably wouldn't guess.

At 25, and 27 I would prefer to see it play at 48.  Corner territory
shuold be favoured when eye-space is threatened, and peeps should be
avoided.

36 is the sort of move that weak humans play, thinking that it defends
their territory.

38 would be a very hard move to get a computer to play.  It has no
(achievable) plan associated with it.

39 is a move I would like to stop from occurring.  How to get a computer
to play a shoulder hit at the top instead?

43 continues in the same vein as 39.  How much does the algorithm value
connection?

White gets 48, 62 and 66.  I think black doesn't value the corner
enough.

The fight at the lower left at 104 and so on.  I think a little more
life/death ability would help.

After black lives with 137, black's endgame looks quite reasonable.

(Now you will tell me that white was the computer. right?)

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