This is AMAZING!

TitanSound · 07-19-2007, 09:19 PM

Well its finally happened and I am so fucking excited!!! Here's a teaser..

"It took an average of 50 computers nearly two decades to sift through the 500 billion billion possible positions to come up with the solution."

What does this mean?!?!? Well it means that they have developed a program that can never lose a game of..

..Draughts......

....

See for yourself...I'm glad they have spent so much time effort and money on this.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Computers crack famous board game

grim reaper · 07-19-2007, 09:32 PM

You have no soul. This is clearly the best thing ever. It took me at least two hours of valuable RE lessons to crack noughts and crosses. This is just a whole new level of awesome.

TitanSound · 07-19-2007, 09:37 PM

No...I really am excited about it...

..really I am..honest

Mad Monk · 07-19-2007, 09:47 PM

Do I have to be the one to say it?

Shall we play a game? sound effect *Fixed By TVA*

Good game computer, but now let play chess.

*smoke pours from console*

Computer?
...

faker_phil · 07-19-2007, 11:14 PM

Any information if this will be implemented in flash games? Or will the storage required for the solutions just be too big?

insinuwait · 07-19-2007, 11:16 PM

wtf is draughts?

faker_phil · 07-19-2007, 11:18 PM

checkers, read the fucking article

Random Ping · 07-20-2007, 01:09 AM

That's pretty cool. I'm still waiting for the chutes and ladders "master" computer.

Quote:

It took me at least two hours of valuable RE lessons to crack noughts and crosses

This is tic, tac, toe, correct?

I don't know if you guys ever played Chessmaster 3000, but that AI was fairly intelligent, and that game was made years ago. I am sure they have something almost comparable for Chess by now. Something well past the intellect of Big Blue, or whatever the name of the computer that beat Kasparov was.

mrhahn · 07-20-2007, 10:14 AM

What took them so long? Chess AI was perfected in the 18th Century!

Copperhead · 07-20-2007, 04:27 PM

I found out about this in the newspaper... i wondered why the hell they would commit computer ressources to finding this shit out.

mrhahn · 07-20-2007, 04:33 PM

They're computer scientists, it's what they do!

K_Shizzle · 07-20-2007, 05:06 PM

Candyland ftw

TheVerbalAssassin · 07-21-2007, 04:27 AM

Sorry Monk, couldn't let it go like that.......

Mad Monk · 07-21-2007, 05:14 AM

+Rep!

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TitanSound Captain Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: London, England Posts: 2,811	This is AMAZING! Well its finally happened and I am so fucking excited!!! Here's a teaser.. "It took an average of 50 computers nearly two decades to sift through the 500 billion billion possible positions to come up with the solution." What does this mean?!?!? Well it means that they have developed a program that can never lose a game of.. ..Draughts...... .... See for yourself...I'm glad they have spent so much time effort and money on this. BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Computers crack famous board game __________________ "You often find drummers have amazing memories, they have to remember long musical phrases as pure data, its almost binary" Last edited by TitanSound : 07-19-2007 at 09:36 PM.

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grim reaper Forum Moderator Brigadier General Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England Posts: 7,256	Re: This is AMAZING! You have no soul. This is clearly the best thing ever. It took me at least two hours of valuable RE lessons to crack noughts and crosses. This is just a whole new level of awesome.

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TitanSound Captain Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: London, England Posts: 2,811	Re: This is AMAZING! No...I really am excited about it... ..really I am..honest __________________ "You often find drummers have amazing memories, they have to remember long musical phrases as pure data, its almost binary"

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