The game "Arinaa was designed by Omar Syed to be difficult for computers to solve, he invented it to spur the improvement of artificial intelligence software and so offered a $10,000 prize to the inventor of a software program that could defeat any human player; however there were some restrictions on the offer. Syed believes that even now a supercomputer might be able to defeat any human so he insists that the program be run on inexpensive off the shelf components. Also the $10,000 prize offer is only good until 2020 because Syed figures that after that even a cheap home computer will have supercomputer ability and so writing a champion Arinaaprogram wouldn't be much of a challenge.
None of this indicates a inherent weakness of computers to me, in fact just the opposite. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
