Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:48:11 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 12:30:19, Eran wrote: >On October 08, 2002 at 12:27:12, Louis Fagliano wrote: > >>On October 08, 2002 at 12:00:05, Eran wrote: >> >>> >>>He must feel really bad and depressed, right? >>> >>>Eran >> >>Why? I didn't expect computers to be better than a human world champion this >>soon, but the point is that eventually they will. (Perhaps by 2015?) What >>Franz Morsch and other programmers are gaining is valuable information of where >>the weak points in their programs are. Though it may take a while and require >>more advances in hardware (faster processors and more memory) if, or perhaps >>when, those advances come and coupled with some new algorythm that hasn't even >>been thought of at this time computers will surpass the human world champion. >> >>What is happening here is that the way Kramnik beats Fritz will provide the >>direction that programmers have to take to shore up the weaknesses in their >>programs. Without the results and games of this match, and the Kasparov-Deep >>Junior 7 match, programmers wouldn't know exactly how the best human players can >>exploit their programs. >> >>If human world champions realy want to stave off the day that computers will be >>able to beat them in a match then they should refuse to play computers at all, >>leaving programmers wondering where their programs are weak. In this way >>Kranmik and Kasparov in playing these matches at all are actually doing a >>valuable service to aspiring programmers. > >Yeah, I agree with you. Programmers improve their programs by learning from >mistakes. > >Eran That's true, but it's not clear what to fix or how to fix it. The weaknesses that Kramnik is exposing have been known for years and years. It's a lot easier to describe the weakness than to know how to change the code to "fix" it without making the program slower and weaker overall.
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