Author: Graham Laight
Date: 01:57:13 03/14/01
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On March 13, 2001 at 19:06:27, HECTOR MUNOZ wrote: >There are some who might argue that a computer chess program is not a >demonstration of intelligence in particular, a program which uses Shannon's >Type A Approach. I need to present a solid argument that such a program >does involve intelligence. If intelligence is the ability to find (or create) knowledge which is useful in a given situation (the definition I personally prefer), then chess computers are very intelligent in the domain of chess, since they do this better than all humans (except the top 20-40). If you prefer to say that to be intelligent, you need to be able to independantly learn about a situation, then all the top chess programs would have to be described as being, to use a British Army expression, "as thick as pigshit". -g
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