Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:40:13 06/30/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 05:35:18, stuart taylor wrote: >On June 29, 2000 at 19:03:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>Probably you have already read about the new supercomputer delivered by IBM to a >>center where they investigate atomic devices blast. It is 1000 times faster than >>deep Blue and so maybe you wonder, as me, what a thing like this could do if >>running a program like that enclosed in DB. Bob? >>Fernando > >I'm sure that would do the trick! Also, Deeper blue as I understand it was not >programmed as maximally as it could have been, so program this one even better, >and perhaps we can really fit in all chess knowledge that can be defined, and >the great speed will automatically add the equivalent of even more chess >knowledge than we know of. > Then, being far superior to deeper blue, it should challange Kasparov in a way >that its supremacy (if it will be that) will not be in question. > Then mankind can confidently learn chess from the machine, things which were >not yet known. I mean, we might find that "unclear" positions are even clearer >to that machine than to any human - which at the momment is known to be the >opposite case. > Let's not ever wait for any stronger hardware. Let's wrap it up now! This machine is surely hundreds of millions of dollars. To take Hsu's chess chips out of mothballs and create the new versions would probably be a couple million more. The programming would add a couple more million. Who's going to pay for it? I think that basically, there is no chance whatsoever that this will ever happen. Of course, I would love to be proven wrong.
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