This was only running on 4x3090s man. The gap is far, far wider than you think. 8 5090s or 6000s and at least as many extra dedicated to doing nothing but running disgusting amounts of monte carlo in parallel from anything resembling a good choice (fuck it check some bad ones too) would lay him to waste.
I am going to go out on a limb and say part of it is a matter of respect, and part "lets not discourage and scare the shit out of anyone who knows even a little about Go"
A long time ago I ported a Go game to the iPhone for a job, the only way to control difficulty was to limit the amount of time it could spend monte carloing. On the iPhone 4, "Hard" would take 20-30 seconds a turn and drain your battery. I learned the game as I was making the app, got into single digits vs humans years after that. When the iPhone 5S came out it was capable of doing so many more iterations a second that even the easiest difficulty destroyed me until I spent enough time figuring out which moves created the worst spaces for it to search, which isn't really playing go anymore it's more like mining bitcoin by hand.
E: 4x3090 tops out at ~1.4k nnEvals/s. 4x5090 is 3.2x. 8xRTX 6000 something like 7x.
I am going to go out on a limb and say part of it is a matter of respect, and part "lets not discourage and scare the shit out of anyone who knows even a little about Go"
A long time ago I ported a Go game to the iPhone for a job, the only way to control difficulty was to limit the amount of time it could spend monte carloing. On the iPhone 4, "Hard" would take 20-30 seconds a turn and drain your battery. I learned the game as I was making the app, got into single digits vs humans years after that. When the iPhone 5S came out it was capable of doing so many more iterations a second that even the easiest difficulty destroyed me until I spent enough time figuring out which moves created the worst spaces for it to search, which isn't really playing go anymore it's more like mining bitcoin by hand.
E: 4x3090 tops out at ~1.4k nnEvals/s. 4x5090 is 3.2x. 8xRTX 6000 something like 7x.