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Subject: Re: Computers vs. Humans - meaningless?

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 15:19:49 03/25/02

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On March 25, 2002 at 17:06:57, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

[snip]

>Second, there might be less money to sponsor such events, since the general
>public might think that computers already are stronger than humans after DB-GK.
>I do not think deep blue was any good for computer chess at all. In fact, I
>think it was quite terrible.

Mainly because of people speaking of "The Final Battle", "Garry defending
Mankind" , "Mankind vs the Machines" or similar things. If people would be
realistic enough and just see what it is - simply a few games between a very
strong human chessplayer and a strong chess engine - then it wouldn't be that
terrible. But realism doesn't sell that good.

Just see how emotional some people are here in CCC when they're "discussing"
results between machines and humans. When CCC-members are not capable of
handling these things in an intelligent fashion, what else could you expect from
manki... uh the public.

Sargon



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