Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 01:17:26 10/20/04
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On October 19, 2004 at 22:00:24, Tony Nichols wrote: >We dont bow down to calculators do we. If the contest is to see who can do arithmetic calculations with the greatest accuracy and efficiency, then we would indeed bow down to calculators as they are clearly superior at this task. >They definitely do >math faster than humans. Right. At some point the calculators became faster than humans for doing simple math. Calculators continued to get faster, while humans did not, and now computers are billions of times faster than humans. Right now computers play equally as well or better than the best humans in the world, and computers will only get faster. Do you dispute any of this? >The point is chess programs are tools for chess >players. That may be what chess programs are *to you*, but that isn't what they are to everyone. >If we want to have matches between humans and computers we should not >forget this. By the way, I will not be "snickering at how it doesnt even >understand" I will be having good laugh thinking about all the people who think >it does! I don't think anyone in this discussion claimed that computers understand anything. What I am claiming is that chess is 100% purely mathematical and that some day computers will play the game perfectly, while humans will never approach perfection. My claim can be proven mathematically, at least theoretically. I doubt that your claim that humans will always have a chance can be proven, and I'm not even sure there is any evidence to support it. Your claim seems mainly based upon human ego, emotion, or hope.
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