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

[Nick Apperson]

In my original question I stated minimum resources.  I agree with you that
lots of memory could be highly useful: "... 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." (from my original post)

So it sounds to me like most people think that if we had a perfect program,
computers would be able to win.  So at this point hardware will only allow
us to get away with writing less perfect code.

On 1/24/07, Stuart A. Yeates <syeates at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/24/07, Don Dailey <drd at mit.edu> wrote:
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> > I am fairly sure a perfect program would be impossible, even among
> > the set of all possible programs that could find a move within let's
> > say 60 seconds per move.
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> Since no one has mentioned bounding memory, a complete lookup table (a
> complete table of correct moves, perfect-hashed by board state) should do
> the trick.
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> cheers
> stuart
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