The answer is "yes." Many computer programs (including my own) can beat me
easily on today's hardware and I am, indeed, a human.
Glad I could clear that up for you. ;-)
- Dave Hillis
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Sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: [computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?
This is something I have been wrestling with. It is kind of a theoretical
question. Assuming a program that utilizes all avaliable resources perfectly.
It plays the best game you could ever program it to play. How fast would the
computer have to be to beat a human? I could see people argue that if the
program had enough knowledge it could be a pretty slow computer (less than 100
Mhz), I could also see someone state the reality that our brains (when you sum
up the computational power of an entire thinking brain) have way more
processing power than a cluster of high performance workstations and so
technology isn't able to provide computer hardware that would be fast enough.
I think I vastly underestimate the human brain, but I would say a computer with
perfect software, 32 GB of RAM (so a lot) and a 300 Mhz processor (slow
processor) would be able to beat a human. Thoughts?
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