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"The game has long interested AI researchers because of its complexity...the average 150-move game contains more possible board configurations — 10^170 — than there are atoms in the Universe, so it can’t be solved by algorithms that search exhaustively for the best move."

[Source: http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancie...]




Yeah interesting, so mathematically there are more moves in Go than the other games AI players have solved so far.

Thanks for the info.


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to be precise. Which is more than even the square of the number of atoms in the universe, showing how silly that comparison is...

Btw, the quoted "the average 150-move game contains" makes no sense at all, since such a game contains only 151 positions.


Fold that friggin' number. It's causing everyone to scroll horizontally.


We put two spaces ahead of it, which gives it 'pre' formatting that doesn't wrap.


+1




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