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Computers have calculated faster than humans since forever and that doesn't seem to bother the human psyche. If you read the paper you will find very specialize
by fspeech 11y ago
Computers have calculated faster than humans since forever and that doesn't seem to bother the human psyche. If you read the paper you will find very specialized and custom-tuned algorithms carefully devised by humans that take advantage of computers' calculation speed, so it's really the achievement of a different group of human (computer specialists instead of go players), why should that bother people?
Go/weiqi is actually a computation heavy game even for human players. Top players routinely evaluate many moves and count positions. This can be stressful and error prone during time control periods when they have very little time to make moves. Top players routinely lose games that they are leading under time pressure. This is to the advantage of computers as they are reliable and actually need to search less during endgames. Unlike chess go accumulates pieces on the board as game goes on. It would be more interesting to have humans play computers with more generous time rules.