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Subject: Re: ICCA Journal Sinks To A New Low

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:41:20 01/26/98

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On January 25, 1998 at 15:07:25, Komputer Korner wrote:

>Don't get me wrong. I have suscribed to the ICCA journal for almost 10
>years
>and I consider it a valuable source of computer chess news, but it's
>scientific articles sometimes just do not measure up to a real
>scientific
>journal which is what the ICCA journal has always purported to be. In
>the
>latest issue there is a prime example of this,  titled "Does Deep Blue
>Use
>Artificial Intelligence?"  In that article R.E. Korf of Los Angeles
>argues
>that IBM (a $ 100 billion corporation) is wrong when it says that Deep
>Blue
>does not use artificial intelligence. Korf argues that Deep Blue is an
>artificial intelligent machine!?????  Without having access to the
>source
>code or hardware of Deep Blue and with only the games of the last match
>with
>Kasparov to guide him, Korf has the audacity to claim that Deep Blue has
>intelligence. He is wrong for the following reasons.

I read the article.  It does not claim that DB has intelligence.  Given
this, your whole premise falls flat.

bruce



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