i never have, did not, and do not propose biomimicry. indeed, it seems to me that things are moving in the exact opposite direction, for of late, most of my opponents across the internet Go board seem to have adopted AyaBot et al playing styles, and for all i know i am playing against man-machine hybrids; they certainly have superior tsume-go abilities to me. perhaps it is partly because i am inherently weak at detail that i seek the big picture approach.
in my article on Mogo and Crazy Stone, written 8 years ago, i conclude with the following: "Despite Crazy Stone’s late-game epilepsy, it is to his (or, rather, Remi’s!) credit that both it and its son/father MoGo have knocked the best of the rest off their perches at the 19x19 game as well as the 9x9 one, from which Crazy Stone itself only migrated last year. We can expect the next round of competition to feature many Monte-Carlo method based competitors.....Monte-Carlo or bust! Looking to the future, it is likely that the remarkable phenomenon known as Moore’s Law, that computers will become ever-more powerful and ever-more affordable at the same time, will continue to hold, and that it will not be long before even our desktop personal computers are as massively parallel as Deep Blue. Armed with the hardware of Deep Blue and the software of Monte-Carlo, the next generation of alien intelligences is going to be powerful indeed - Allez les Deep Bleus!!" AI is A I, not biomimicry, just as mathematics and intelligence are not peculiar to H.Sapiens; ants, bees and bacteria use it and have it respectively too. That is not to say that AI cannot learn a great deal from cognitive psychology etc, but you are welcome to ignore basic research. "I think we have already a good idea of how our brains work (at least while playing Go)" indeed? then you know more than Christoph Koch, because he knows that he doesn't yet have a good idea about how brains work, which is why studying the brain is his life's work. "If you are writing a Go program that attempts to be competitive..." i think that when you say "you" you mean yourself and David Fotland who repeatedly has expressed the same view as you. I am not. He likens my writing to trying to reinvent the aeroplane by making its wings flap. An ironically bemusing analogy; one day not too far off an NSA dragonfly drone with 4 flapping wings will be watching your every move, and if you step out of line it will pop you off just as JFK was popped off when he stepped out of line by refusing to obey orders. "It doesn't make sense to complain that people are not writing competitive programs using techniques that showed poor returns in the past." another misrepresentation. the only ones doing the complaining are you and Fotland because i don't follow the good shepherd. David has been congratulated for the success he achieved, and deservedly so, However, Many Faces preMC, insofar as i understand it from the few published descriptions that are retrievable, has a lot in common with Gnugo but just about nothing in common with HALy. btw, Graf and Platzner write: "... abakus was able to solve several instances of the "two-safe-groups" test-set which is known to be very difficult for MCTS programs." - can anyone who is into MCTS explain why it finds such cases difficult? "do you suppose there are two kinds of people, the curious and the ones that didn't go extinct?" i give up. masochism is not my bag. i pointed to the water, but you and just about everyone else with a mouse in their hands obviously prefer canned fizzy drinks instead. yes, you are probably right. HALy is already dead, and soon so will i be. btw, Xerox, whose employees repackaged the analogue PPI tracker-ball of the kind i was introduced to in 1965 (which by then had already been around for 20+ years, and which is featured in Bronowski's superb "Ascent of Man" tv series) as a digital mouse, decided it wasn't worth investing in because they could not see an immediate return on it. an old friend turned born-again Christian , on seeing my videos about the History of God , which explains a few things that had puzzled me for decades, said "don't send me any more of this crap". PS Hilary wouldn't have got very far without Tenzing.
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