Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 11:31:14 06/14/98
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On June 14, 1998 at 13:50:19, Don Dailey wrote: >I think a knowledge based approach to computer chess is not elegant at >all. However I use it because I do not see a better approach. Good ! I like this Don ! > My >program keeps accumulating more and more knowledge and seems to keep >improving as a result of it. Thats good. > I'm forced to use this ugly brute force >technique because I do not know a better way. :-) Nobody knows how to do... But with trying different ways, evolution will show... >At the rate we are going with ram prices plummeting and our computer >memories getting larger and larger, we may someday have as much memory >in our computers as humans have in their heads. Having the memory is not a question of quantity. IF you computers would have all the memory of a human brain, they would have the problem to understand which knowledge is important in which situations. The human brain is very good in knowing WHICH knowledge to use when. > Already chess >programs use many megabytes of memory, and if we continue this ugly >trend toward modeling the human brain :-)) ugly trend toward modeling the humain brain :-))) >we will soon have chess programs >requiring huge amounts of memory. This is not a pleasing development >at all and is so wasteful. You must teach the program to forget the unimportant stuff. Than the "brain"=computer-memory will find out by itself which knowledge when to use. Let your computer sleep about the data, like a human beeing does. Sleep is our biggest weapon against too much data. You put your book under the pillow and sleep, after drinking a glass of milk. And the next day you will be able to differenciate between important and unimportant stuff. Very nice way, isn't it ? I don't see that our machines work this way. Anybody tries to quantify the data and the knowledge. Nobody tries to qualify it, with "forgetting" e.g. >The culmination of all of this might be the 32 man database. This >will be a sad day indeed when a simple table lookup gives you the >right answer in every position. Then our programs will play like >super humans, having instant and perfect intuition in every position. We will change to GO than ! :-)) Or try with loving girls instead, i guess it will take more time for the materialists to create a girl-database too :-)) >- Don
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