Re: Turing test

[Frédéric Boutet <boutet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:31 20/05/1998 +0900, vous avez écrit:
>Here is a little puzzle for you all:
>a game record between a person and a computer program. Now which is which,
>and why? 

I just saw the problem and rapidly watched the game six times. I've changed
my mind each time! I began to think that black was the computer, but I tend
to follow the opposite impression: white should be the computer.

Both players have a systematic style. Just as you think that one is more
systematic, more territory-oriented, the opposite reasoning comes
immediately and you end up to think that finally, it is the other player who
is more this or more that!

1.To me, the major reason for choosing white is that computer programs
usually try to prevent very early from being in danger (life and death).
So, as the south-eastern black group was in such danger, it seems that
black can not be a computer.

2.The second reason is the move 225 (not capturing the four black stones
,which is sente!). I cannot believe that a human player would have not
enjoyed to capture those four stones. Only a cold heart such as a computer
could have let those stones. So white is a program!


fred boutet