[gurps] Failing autopilots and RVO

[Chuk Goodin]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Computers can still not beat the best go players but they are starting
> to on small games this year, 4 years ago they could not beat medium to
> new players. The change was not in computer power but in programming
> technique. Computers are far faster than humans at almost any math or
> logic. They have much better memories. They really are very flexible
> as far as environments and being able to be reprogrammed for new
> tasks. When combined with robots they can move much much faster than
> we can.


It's some of both -- I think the real good Go programs tend to run on
multiple-core machines, and even then they can only beat pros occasionally
and only if the computer gets a handicap (sometimes a really big handicap).

(I'm not a computer professional but I'm taking some AI courses at
university and we talked about games a lot last year.)


-- 
chuk