Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:05:37 11/17/01
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On November 17, 2001 at 13:22:04, Uri Blass wrote:
>On November 17, 2001 at 12:21:10, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 17, 2001 at 12:07:07, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>Today I received an email from my contact in MS. The man said to me he has made
>>>a reasearch with his pals, games people in MS and other executive people,
>>>documents inside MS "for you only" vaults and so on and the answer was, he said,
>>>"No, we are not engaged in nothing of the sort". Then he said to me: "it is the
>>>answer I knew I was going to receive from HQ..."
>>>So we are in the beginning point again. I suppose that IF MS guy are really
>>>trying to so something of monster quality to get same hoopla as IBM got,
>>
>>
>>
>>They could never achieve the same. It's over now. A computer has already beaten
>>the reigning human World Champion, you can't beat that.
>
>It is possible to beat that
>Deeper blue beated Kasparov 3.5-2.5
>
>If microsoft can beat the world champion 4-2 or better than it then it is going
>to be clear that their result is better than IBM's result.
>
>They will have to generate a clearly better program than Deeper blue in order to
>do it because I believe that the best humans learned from chess programs so they
>are better players today.
>
>Uri
Do you believe that the general audience has a memory for that?
People just remember something like "a computer has beaten the world champion at
chess".
For them the matter is over. Computers are better than human at chess, that's
all.
Christophe
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