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Subject: Re: Neural Networks Recognise Patterns!

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:01:57 06/28/00

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On June 28, 2000 at 13:58:28, Graham Laight wrote:

>I assume that what you're talking about is a database of piece patterns that can
>occur in a chess game, together with some indication of what these patterns
>mean.
>
>Unfortunately, when we try to suggest that a NN is the best AI instrument for
>abstract pattern recognition, all we seem to hear is that NNs are quite
>incapable of being trained to recognise chess patterns - as if the mechanism of
>the human brain is some sort of magic...

Computer simulations of neural networks are only very loose approximations of
human neural networks.

So no, the human brain does not work on "magic", but I doubt that a computer can
currently approximate a brain well enough to be meaningful to computer chess.

-Tom



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