Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:05:46 03/14/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 12:30:27, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >To beging with, they don't play. They make exclusively mechanical moves >following a pretedermined and invariable set of instructions. An illustration: > >[D]3k4/1r2p3/r2pPp2/b1pP1Pp1/1pP3Pp/pP2K2P/P7/8 b > >Give this position to programs time and again and until the end of times they >will evaluate is as a crushing win for black. That's not intelligence any more >than the talk of a parrot. I don't think that pefection is mandatory. The programs handle general cases very well. They are optimized to handle practical cases, and you of all people know how well they handle general cases. If I find a case you can't figure out in reasonable time, does that mean that you are a parrot, too? They aren't exactly like humans but that shouldn't matter as far as the use of the term "intelligence" goes. bruce
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