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Some Philsophical Questions About Computers And Go
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How long will it be until a computer is clearly the Go champion?
- will Moore's Law hold for the next 50/100/200 years?
- It's proven very difficult to figure out what Moore actually said, since he's misquoted in so many different ways. So to answer this without reference to Moore's Law: Computers will continue to improve at surpising and impressive rates forever, not just for the next 200 years; the rate of improvement probably cannot be estimated beyond the next two years.
- when a computer becomes the 19x19 champ, will a person still be able to beat it at 39x39?
- I hate to think how much importing a 39x39 goban from Japan will cost! And where would I play it?
- 19x19 has features beyond mere scale; it is unique among candidate board sizes (NxN, where N is an odd number) in that it is closest to the point where territory on the third line and below is equal to territory on the fourth line and above. Any different size would change this balance and hence upset the quality of play. -- Bignose
If a computer becomes champ, will Go still still be interesting?
- unlike chess, people could still play handicap games
- we could decide "against God, I would need four stones."
- computers have "solved" many other games that people still find interesting to play against one another
- Checkers being a prime example.
- the methods used by computers to beat humans are usually uninteresting to humans (brute-force problem-space searching) who will still want to improve their own play
Go exposes moral character, so computer Go players will always suck at some wabi/sabi level?
When a computer becomes champ, will anyone care?
- all non-luck games will already have been won by computers. Go will inevitably be the last skill game to fall?
- Wouldn't its being the LAST game make it more worth caring about for that?
- many people don't consider the brute-force problem space search methods to be very interesting from a can-computers-think perspective, because there is no creativity shown by such methods.
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