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> And in Go, which has a 19-by-19 board and over 10^150 possible positions, even an amateur human can still rout the world’s top-ranked computer programs. Surp
by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> And in Go, which has a 19-by-19 board and over 10^150 possible positions, even an amateur human can still rout the world’s top-ranked computer programs.
Surprising, in retrospect, how fast that changed.
- gqcwwjtg 7y agoIt was surprising at the time, too.
- im3w1l 7y agoWhen I heard of the breakthrough in CNN's on imagenet the first thing I thought of was "wow I wonder if you can use them on Go". Of course I never executed on this idea. I'm mentioning to show that it was not that non-obvious.
- cortesoft 7y agoIt is interesting that it was solved in large part by not relying fully on brute force search.
- tromp 7y ago208168199381979984699478633344862770286522453884530548425 639456820927419612738015378525648451698519643907259916015 628128546089888314427129715319317557736620397247064840935 positions, to be precise (over 2 * 10^170). https://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html https://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html