> it’s still relatively easy to understand how well you’re doing at any point
This isn’t true, and is actually a large part of why go computers were getting destroyed by humans almost twenty years after deep blue took down Kasparov. There were articles as recent as about 2012 despairing that computers would ever “get” go.
That said, relative to grading an essay, I’d tend to agree, go is easier. But that said, if the goal is to find the edge, so to speak: to figure out what “mundane” is and then go a bit beyond, that seems eminently possible for a computer to do.
This isn’t true, and is actually a large part of why go computers were getting destroyed by humans almost twenty years after deep blue took down Kasparov. There were articles as recent as about 2012 despairing that computers would ever “get” go.
That said, relative to grading an essay, I’d tend to agree, go is easier. But that said, if the goal is to find the edge, so to speak: to figure out what “mundane” is and then go a bit beyond, that seems eminently possible for a computer to do.