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Where is bg on the xkcd chart?

Posted By: Steve Mellen
Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 5:27 p.m.

In Response To: Where is bg on the xkcd chart? (Casper van der Tak)

As I recall, when Kasparov played Deep Blue, Kasparov got to spend months of study trying to identify and figure out how to exploit the computer's weaknesses. Of course there was a big cash prize that provided him with the incentive to do this. If we're going to put the fate of humanity on the line against XGR, I think we would need a similar test, which I'm not saying is necessarily feasible.

What I find most fascinating about the chart is that a game of perfect information like Go is ranked so low. Go, like chess, is completely solvable in theory. With all the advances that have been made in processing power, it's a real feather in the cap of humanity that the computers are so far away from beating humans at a game like that.

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