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

[Aloril]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:53 -0500, Don Dailey wrote:

> It's obvious that you can't program a 10 instruction per second computer
> to beat a human - so it's also clear that there would be some minimum 
> level of hardware required.  

Obvious? You have proof of that? ;-)
Don't underestimate God, there might exist some really really really
clever mathematical way to select enough good moves with 1000
instructions on 19x19 board to beat a pro player.

> 
> I could make a guess, but I certainly don't trust my intuition here.
> My guess is that God could program a core 2 duo system of today to
> beat a strong human.

That is probably safe bet.

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Aloril <aloril at iki.fi>