Re: [computer-go] Computer Go tournament at EGF

["Jim O'Flaherty, Jr." <jim_oflaherty_jr@xxxxxxxxx>]

How approximate do you want the answer to be?!  ;^)

--- Robin Kramer <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Suppose we want a computer that will answer a move in nine hours, what 
> is the portion of the known universe that we would be able to use as our 
> go machine?
> 
> --- Robin
> 
> Chris Fant wrote:
> 
> >>I think your encription technique is flawed.  If China tries to use
> >>high ranking Dan players to encode messages, then the west could
> >>simply build hardware to search the entire game tree and solve the
> >>problem!  Such a machine will be stronger than the eastern players.
> >>
> >>The speed of light is indeed a problem even inside our computers
> >>today.  Presumably, to build my big GO computer I will want to use a
> >>great deal of parallelism.  I think I would want to use the whole
> >>universe as my computer.  Would proabably have to figure out how to
> >>use wormholes to speed up communication.
> >>
> >>The perfect GO computer might not be that far away, perhaps a few
> >>hundred/thousand years.  It truly does not seem possible with things
> >>we know now, but maybe we will know more in a few hundred years?
> >>Nah!!!!!
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Well since we are deep into pure theory, I might as well mention
> >quantum computers.  I think they have the best hope of solving Go
> >since they can use the computional resources of infinite universes.
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