On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 15:22 -0600, Nick Apperson wrote: > 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?
Excellent question. So you really mean, if God would program a computer to be as strong as possible would it beat humans at human-like time-controls? It's obvious that you can't program a 10 instruction per second computer to beat a human - so it's also clear that there would be some minimum level of hardware required. I could make a guess, but I certainly don't trust my intuition here. My guess is that God could program a core 2 duo system of today to beat a strong human. - Don > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
