Re: computer-go: minimax and go

[Heikki Levanto <heikki@xxxxxx>]

Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How would you write  a program on that computer we 
> will have in 60 years that doesn't do any kind of search?

I do not think that anyone here is claiming to have a better 
way for a go program in 60 (or 600) years. I think that most of 
us who think in the practical line consider 60 (or even 10) years 
to be far in the future. Our focus is not in what is theoretically
possible, but in how can we improve on today's systems.

I must also object to your "doesn't do any kind of search". You seem 
to divide the approaches to comuter go into 
  a) those that are based on global search, and
  b) those that don't do any kind of searh
May I humbly propose that searching is one of the many ways to get 
towards a better go playing program. That in the theoretically perfect
program there will be some searching, but that it may possibly not be
the main ingredience - just like we use boolean algebra in various
ways, without claiming that it is the one and only thing that makes 
computers (or programs) work...

-H









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