Artificial Intelligence / Unit 3 AI 0155 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Real-Board Wall
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The idea
No machine solves chess or Go the way small games are solved — the trees dwarf every computer that will ever exist.
In practice
Go's maker-measured count: ten to the power 170 board configurations, a googol times beyond chess.
Where people slip
The wall is the counting law from Unit 2, not an engineering shortfall awaiting budget.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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