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Subject: Re: Aberdeen University plans supercomputer to beat "greatest grandmaste

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 21:55:06 06/04/01

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On June 04, 2001 at 17:09:48, Chris King wrote:

>On June 04, 2001 at 16:14:51, Daniel Vachon wrote:
>
>>
>>(snip)
>>>``My computers will be as clever as 1,000 Einsteins,'' course director Peter
>>>Vas, professor of artificial intelligence at Scotland's Aberdeen University,
>>>told Reuters Monday.
>>
>>1,000 Einsteins hun?
>>Good luck trying to come close to even 1 Einstein.
>
>It is known that Einstein made mistakes at mathematics and used to get is wife
>to help him out. I don't know if he made mistakes at chess, but if he did will
>it mean that the new supercomputer will make 1000 times as many mistakes.
>
>CK

Don't know Einsteins ELO, but I guess 1000 x his chess knowledge < 2000 ;-)



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