In article , Bill Spight
writes

Dear Justin,

: 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.

As Chris suggested, processing power isn't the only question. How we
program the computer also matters. And, perhaps, computer architecture.

The brain is massively parallel. It can do serial processing, but
computer programs beat it all hollow in that regard. It may be that
advances in programming for parallel processing will be more important
than increases in processing power.

In addition it would be wrong to assume that there is no game with a
clearly defined and finite state space at which no computer programs
will be _able_ to play as strongly as the strongest humans can, even
with lots of processing power and parallel processing.

Neil

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Neil Fernandez