Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:03:41 04/13/02
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On April 12, 2002 at 16:41:37, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On April 12, 2002 at 13:43:21, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>>*Footnote to the word "failures": Most of the GM-versus-PC results are by no >>means major failures, either: 3 of 8 by a GM in his mid 50s (Gulko) who had not >>played computers since 1995 is not bad! Imagine how well he might have done if >>he'd spent a month studying with Fritz 7 and Eduard. > >To restate my skepticism...I'm not fully convinced that Gulko didn't train at >home before the match with one or possibly more than one top program. >Eduard is a good guy but when I asked him to show me some results at regular >tournament time against top comps (no blitz) I didn't receive positive answers. > If you're saying that there's currently no PROOF that there's a human who can do this, I will agree with you. I am simply stating that it's too early to close one's mind to the possibility (even likelihood) that it will happen in the future. As for Gulko, I don't think any time he DID spend (if any) training to beat a computer was even one tenth of one percent as long as the programmers did (over the years) designing and optimizing their program to win at a previously human-only game. Just as it was erroneously thought in the year 1800 or 1850 that man could never create heavier-than-air craft that could fly, so it MAY BE erroneously thought today that humans have already reached the pinnacle of anti-computer techniques in the few years they have been trying (and zero years most GMs have been trying).
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