Many Faces of Go gives reasons for its moves after fact. It reasons about the position using go proverbs, life and death analysis, group strength and connection information, etc. If you have a copy, you can ask it to explain its reasons for making a move. There were far more than a few efforts in this direction. Many people spent decades on this problem. This approach has been explored thoroughly and it doesn’t work.
I believed in this approach as strongly as you do, for many years, before the data proved it to be a false belief. We now know how to make much stronger programs with far less effort. Of you are welcome to try again, and I would be really happy to see a strong program using this kind of approach. Do have a plan to write some code or this just philosophy? Regards, David From: Computer-go [mailto:computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of djhbrown . Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 5:48 AM To: computer-go@computer-go.org Subject: [Computer-go] re comments on Life and Death Plans, evaluation functions, ect failed for over 20 years to produce true (amateur) dan level programs. True. However, the failure of a few efforts to make progress in a direction does not imply that the direction is a dead end. I will be addressing this issue in a future video in the series. Also, you cannot give reasons for moves "after the fact" if reason wasn't used to obtain the selected move in the first place. Exactly so. As stated in "Life and Death", the principal research objective of HALy is for it to be able to formulate and explain its reasons. I feel that the domain of Go is a useful microworld for experimenting with perception and reasoning representations. Current research in volition and conscious choice indicates that conscious choice is actually an after the fact explanation of decisions based on unconscious processes. Yes indeed. This suggests that science is just beginning to discover that philosophical intuitions about consciousness based on no experimentation at all are mere speculations. I think you forgot to suggest which pharmaceuticals, legal or otherwise, to be using while watching this. Without said pharmacological assistance, that video doesn't make a bit of sense to me. I am unaware of any chemicals that could viably substitute for doing a bit of homework. I would be happy to explain any specific issues outside the domain of computer go that you do not understand if you raise them in a YouTube comment. I am aware that the video touches on several myths whose historical origins and current implications are not common knowledge. -- http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/home https://www.youtube.com/user/djhbrown
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