Re: computer-go: unmake move?

[David Mechner <mechner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another kind of "evidence" is what humans do. We have a computers with
staggering computational horsepower and unmatched pattern matching ability, but
we still do tactical search to find if a string can be captured (albeit much
more efficiently than how existing programs do it) and lookahead to figure out
which move is the best.

If there were a way to play well without doing these things, wouldn't some
smart, lazy human have figured it out? 

Heikki wrote:
> Is there any good argument why go programs "have to" be based on reading, or
> is it "just" that the most successfull ones have been so far?

-David