Author: stuart taylor
Date: 16:05:32 07/01/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 14:40:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. In 10 years time it will cost peanuts! S.Taylor
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