Comment on AMD Contest: What Would You Do With 48 Cores?parentComments−lsb16yAs Minsky has said, parallelism isn't worth a damn thing if you don't have better heuristics to prune the search space.If you have a million processors to play chess with, and your search tree still has a branching factor of thirty, you're only looking two moves ahead.The human mind is amazing because our pattern-matching-based search heuristics are great.−xiaoma16yOur pattern-matching-based search heuristics are great because the human mind is amazing.At least that's how I see it ;)
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As Minsky has said, parallelism isn't worth a damn thing if you don't have better heuristics to prune the search space.
If you have a million processors to play chess with, and your search tree still has a branching factor of thirty, you're only looking two moves ahead.
The human mind is amazing because our pattern-matching-based search heuristics are great.
Our pattern-matching-based search heuristics are great because the human mind is amazing.
At least that's how I see it ;)