Re: computer-go: minimax and go

["Vlad Dumitrescu" <vladdu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Have you calculated on your model: How much more computing power would you
> need to get a perfect chess player? Assuming Moore's "law" holds, how long
> would *that* take? And how long until we can have your perfect go player,
> that searches the whole game? If we assume that there are some theoretical
> limits on the size and speed of a processor (a switching unit the size of
> electron, not working faster than light goes through it, perhaps), how
fast
> can this thing of yours ever play? How many parallel processors will it
> need? Will there be enough material and time in the universe to play the
> perfect game?

Just a (philosophical) note: let's not forget that technology goes forward
all the time, and todays architecture and hardware are just nothing against
tomorrow's... If for example the quantum computers will be able to provide
what they are promising, then the perspective will change radically!

/Vlad
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For God's sake, Smithers! It's not rocket
science, it's just brain surgery!
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