Author: Pekka Karjalainen
Date: 02:54:08 12/07/00
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On December 06, 2000 at 16:30:08, Fernando Villegas wrote: >For those interested in this topic, I recomend a little bright essay by Edgar >Allan Poe -The Chess Player of Mr Maelzel"- about the show of one of these >pieces of deceiving machines presented in the states in the middle of 19C. A >great piece of logic and dedution from observation. >Fernando http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm It is indeed a good article as Mr Villegas said. It is also noteworthy how optimistic Poe was about the capabilities of machines. The weakest argument in the whole essay is the claim that if the Automaton were a machine, it would have to win all of its games. With the benefit of hindsight we all can agree that it just ain't so... PHK
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