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Sweet, but it's strange a slow human brain can solve this even when we have super computers and the like working on the problem for many years. What's so speci
by yters 15y ago
Sweet, but it's strange a slow human brain can solve this even when we have super computers and the like working on the problem for many years. What's so special about our brains?
- stryker 15y agoIt's not so surprising if you consider that humans are much better at pattern recognition in general, where the space of possibilities is too large for a brute force search (even with clever optimizations, such as minimax, alpha-beta pruning, and hard-coded openings/endings). Here is a specific example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)#Computers_and_Go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)#Computers_and_Go They've made a bit of progress with Go, putting in heuristics and strategies specific to Go. But it basically amounts to translating human intelligence into code, or what researchers refer to as "domain knowledge". Surely, machines are orders of magnitude faster than humans, for certain things. Just not all.