Author: karen Dall Lynn
Date: 07:07:12 02/19/02
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On February 19, 2002 at 09:24:07, José Carlos wrote: > As it has been brought up again and I didn't give my opinion in the past, I'd >like to say what I think about all of that. [DIET QUOTE PLEASE REFER TO THE PARENT POST ABOVE] I think it is good to distinguish between fast-dumb and slow-smart, and that >they can be cosidered two paradigms in computer chess programming, at least, two >schools (I don't know if this direct translation is correct in english). But >magic doesn't exist. It's all about 1's and 0's... > > José C. I agree with your detachment of two main "rationales" for chess programming. I also agree that so far chess programs may have all their routines reducible to even less than 010100101001101010 tapes, indeed to any set of tokens that restricts the whole processes to syntactical processing. But the philosophical point here is not that the chess programs, as similar behaviorial programs, lack psychological or intentional characteristics in their bottom; the interesting point is that in a blind experiment we humans can **remain in doubt** if our opponent is a program or not -- this doubt being imprinted on us for no more thant the syntactical competence of the program. In this sense, chess programs *do have* the psychological accent int heir rockbotom they lack. For all practical proposes, when some cyborg wins an online game while cheating by the use of a program, and the other complains: "you're a program" there remains the benefit of doubt when the cheater replies: "I am not", provided he/she is really cheating. Allan Turing was honored when contemporary cognitive philosophers gave his name to this test: Turing Test. A program is said to have passed in the turing test when, in the best of their effort, humans cannot be sure (again in a blind exeperiment) if they are playing chess against a program or against a human. Now, if some future chess programming will be smart in a different way - for instance, semantically (not only syntactically) smart - and if some unconvencional programming will come to use (for instance, fuzzy programming, paraconsistent programming etc) -- this would break your dichotomy between slow-smart and fast-dumb into a new qualitative category. But that's for the future, imho. Karen
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