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Subject: Re: The New IBM Monster running 1000 times faster than deep Blue...

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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