Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:36:55 08/08/02
Go up one level in this thread
On August 08, 2002 at 13:58:52, Mike S. wrote:
>On August 08, 2002 at 13:35:54, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>Sorry if this has been mentioned, I don't read every post.
>>
>>http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/08/0121214.shtml?tid=99
>>
>>This is a quote from the Slashdot forum:
>>
>>"...that they have a separate blue program for each human player. It is well
>>known that the AI is programmed to beat the specific chess player it is going
>>against. Old news. What will be interesting is if they come up with a chess AI
>>to take on and beat any grandmaster. What if sports were played like this for
>>example? "If I pit team A against team B, I know A will win. If I pit team C
>>against D, I know C will win etc. Thus I win the superbowl/world series/whatever
>>using 10 different teams dependant on the situation." Sounds goofy. What will be
>>interesting is when they have a one size fits all deep program that does more
>>than the current slew of programs that only target individuals. "
>>
>>hehe. :)
>
>:o)))
>
>That comment above is like if you can go in the software shops and say "I'd like
>to have the Anti-Kramnik version of Chessmaster, and I think I'll buy the
>Anti-Leko version and the Anti-Adams versions of Fritz..."
>
>Most often people really don't have any idea what what they are talking about,
>when they talk about computer chess in the "normal" non-insider's world...
>
>(As whith any specialist topic.)
Just remember that Kasparov himself is the one who promulgated the idea that
Deep Blue was not in fact a super chess-playing machine, but a super
anti-Kasparov beating machine. The fact that he now says it is still the
strongest chess-playing machine of all-time is consistent with his...
inconsistency. :-)
Albert
>
>The challenge would be, you'd need to find replies which sound as stupid as
>those comments, but would be correct at the same time (because sophisticated
>"techie" comments won't do it anyway for that type of audience).
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.