Author: James Robertson
Date: 23:45:29 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 22:32:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 22:06:31, James Robertson wrote: >>On January 14, 2000 at 22:01:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>On January 14, 2000 at 21:42:48, James B. Shearer wrote: >>>[snip] >>>> I agree with Robertson. I don't see much evidence that Hsu has any >>>>extremely rare skills. >>> >>>Only person on earth ever to design a deep-blue chess machine capable of 200M >>>NPS (about 1000 times faster than the next best thing at the time). >> >>Only person on earth to be hired and provided with enough money to do it. > >Why wasn't someone else hired and provided with enough money to do it? Why >hasn't someone else been given the job since then? It's been 3 years. > >I really don't believe that Hsu's skills are so miniscule that just anyone could __Please__ stop quoting and implying that I said "anyone" could have done it. I _know_ it takes a very special person to do this. I just hold that there are _many_ special people who could have produced Deep Blue. >have done it or they would have. Why hasn't Hitachi in Japan come up with a >better machine? If it were easy, they surely would have (or someone else with a >desire for enormous publicity). I think the bar is set so high that everyone >else is afraid even to try. > >IOW, if it isn't so tough to do it, and there is enourmous publicity and benefit >for anyone who can accomplish it, why don't people do it? Perhaps they are >simply unable. Why didn't IBM have a second rematch? They already had a team, a computer, everything, and they didn't. The reason is that once Kasparov lost, a substantial amount of the financial reward for winning a second time is _gone_. There is nothing new to prove. There is only the risk of looking stupider than IBM; "Yes, we are a 21st century company that can't produce a computer as strong as a 20th century IBM!!!". James
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