Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 15:09:38 05/17/03
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On May 17, 2003 at 14:16:23, Peter Stayne wrote: >Are we getting any closer to the point where, given the same >hardware, it's almost impossible to make an engine stronger? Or do we still have >a long way to go? I'm no expert, but I think we haven't even crossed the half-way point yet. Alpha beta based programs have been seriously studied for decades, and there is still probably room for improvement and new ideas even in that area. If you consider the fact that other ideas haven't had the amount of research that alpha-beta has had (and it's not even close), then it seems to me that we have only explored one hall of a giant mansion, and we haven't thoroughly exhausted the exploration of that one hall yet. There are so many areas of AI that are rarely (if ever) used in computer chess, and a lot of them are relatively new. Things like neural networks, genetic algorithms, and the like certainly haven't been studied as much as alpha-beta. In 50 years, think of what will have been discovered in those areas, and those are just some of the more popular new things in AI. There are hundreds or thousands of ideas (or maybe more) that are very cutting edge and are only being explored by a handful of people. Think about it. Maybe 99% of the ideas in AI aren't used in chess. As machines get faster, and more and more areas of AI become better researched, well...the possibilities are endless I think (at least for a few thousand years).
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