In rec.games.go Chris Lawrence wrote:

: Go isn't anywhere near that stage and all programs developed so far play
: at a relatively 'experienced beginner' level. It's not for lack of
: processing grunt, it's down to Go needing human intelligence and
: intuition to play well.

I believe this is a bit premature of a statement. Simply because
processing power currently is not good enough to play a good game of go
does not mean that at some point in the future it won't be. We (humans)
play to a large degree by "human intelligence" and "intuition" because we
also lack that processing power. There is no reason to assume that once
the processing power exists, a computer will not emerge to challenge the
best.

I do realize the massive amounts of positions, et cetera, that need to be
considered, but it seems entirely possible that algorithms might emerge in
the future which can do large overviews of the board and return ideas
which to a human might pass for intuition and might avoid the raw
computation of the possibility-trees altogether.

Best regards,
Justin