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Subject: Re: Dead Wrong!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:17:44 07/22/00

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On July 22, 2000 at 00:39:09, blass uri wrote:

>On July 21, 2000 at 16:48:09, Randall Shane wrote:
><snipped>
>>Using the above statement to claim that Deep Blue had a simple evaluation
>>function is a clear misunderstanding of the paragraph's internal and external
>>context.  From that statement, all that one can reasonably derive is that Deep
>>Blue has a simpler eval function than the human brain
>
>I think that commercial programs has more complicated evaluation function than
>the human brain.

I hate to argue here, but this is _absolute_ nonsense.  Chess programs are to
the human brain as an insect is to the human specie.  Insects can do some
things better.  They can carry more, in ratio to their body weight.  They
can jump higher.  But they are _not_ more knowledgeable about anything.

I'm surprised anybody would even begin to suggest this.  I'd be more than
happy to read any evaluation function you want and point out the places where
I have knowledge that it doesn't.  But we are going to have to have a lot of
time to do this, because the gap is HUGE.




>
>Humans cannot remmeber many numbers to calculate the evaluation of the position.
>The advnatage of humans is tha ability to use selective search and the ability
>to learn from search to change their evaluation and not more complicated
>evaluation function.

And the ability to do _many_ things in parallel while making an intuitive
decision.





>
>Uri



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