2009/10/29 Olivier Teytaud <olivier.teyt...@lri.fr> > > >> Yes, this group does not have a consensus at all on this. On the one >> hand we hear that MCTS has reached a dead end and there is no benefit from >> extra CPU power, and on the other hand we have these developers hustling >> around for the biggest machines they can muster in order to play matches >> with humans! And Olivier claims that computers benefit more from >> additional thinking time than humans! >> >> >> > Thanks for this comment. I agree that something is strange here :-) > Olivier >
I'm being a bit sarcastic - I recognize that most of the statements made about this general issue are not based as much on logic as they are on emotional feelings or just making rash interpretations of tiny data samples. Almost always with us humans (myself included) when we try to interpret data we lean way in the direction of our own subjective biases. Even our own interpretations are in conflict sometimes. I myself have said things that upon close examination prove to be in conflict with something else I "believed", they both could not be true! And then to add insult to injury we try to explain the conflict away with amazingly creative skill instead of just admitting that we might need to adjust our belief system. As far as this subject is concerned, I honestly don't think we fully understand it, myself included. We have a lot of conflicting evidence and I'm going to take a step backwards until we know more. With go it is extremely frustrating. The evaluation (rating/ranking) system is non-standard and rather kludgey and we would need thousands of games to settle this under controlled conditions unless the man/machine difference was enormous. - Don > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ >
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