[computer-go] Can a computer beat a human?

[Nick Apperson]

Let me clear one thing up...  I mean, a professional go player.  A rough
approximation of what the human brain is capable of when it is optimized for
go compared with a computer that has its software optimized (not limited by
programming ability and programmer time) for go.

On 1/23/07, Joshua Shriver <jshriver at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My 500mhz computer beats me fairly easy ;) with Gnugo so depends on
> the person you're comparing.
>
> -Josh
>
> On 1/23/07, Nick Apperson <apperson at gmail.com> 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?
> >
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