Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:43:11 04/07/05
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On April 06, 2005 at 18:29:07, Steven Edwards wrote: >From: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node1.html > ><Quote> >Q. What about chess? > >A. Alexander Kronrod, a Russian AI researcher, said ``Chess is the Drosophila >of AI.'' He was making an analogy with geneticists' use of that fruit fly to >study inheritance. Playing chess requires certain intellectual mechanisms and >not others. Chess programs now play at grandmaster level, but they do it with >limited intellectual mechanisms compared to those used by a human chess player, > substituting large amounts of computation for understanding. Once we >understand these mechanisms better, we can build human-level chess programs >that do far less computation than do present programs. > >Unfortunately, the competitive and commercial aspects of making computers play >chess have taken precedence over using chess as a scientific domain. It is as >if the geneticists after 1910 had organized fruit fly races and concentrated >their efforts on breeding fruit flies that could win these races. > ></Quote> It's all a very natural and healthy process - the survival of the fittest in the world of algorithms. Of course it's also a cruel process. Sometimes you learn that your best ideas will not survive. Vas
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