> I tend to think that Go will take a while because it seems a few
> orders of magnitude more combinatorially complex than chess.
You assume one must sample the search space exhaustively. This is not
true for chess. Brute force is a way to do it, but Deep Blue is not all
muscle. I am convinced that one can blow away virtually everybody with
say 1 realtime MNeuron equivalent. Strategy does wonder on not very
rugged fitness landscapes.
> Let's see... without quantum computers, 10 years; with quantum
> computers, 5 years? Only a stab in the dark, of course. (You
> can't ever be shown right unless you make a prediction...)
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