You find the bot, lay me 3:2 on my money and I'll play for as much per game as anyone can muster. Surely this should be a good deal for a crushing computer.
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
Michael Wiesenberg wrote:At Thursday, 3/4/2004 02:01 PM -0800, James Kittock wrote:
Having said that, there are games where a "bot", that is, a computer program, makes the game relatively pointless for humans. Scrabble is a good example--well-written Scrabble programs generally crush the best human players.
Do you have proof of this?
If you'll forgive the appeal to authority, how about:
"Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that exceeds that of the strongest human players." http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=512159