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Subject: Re: Would Self-Awareness Improve Engine Performance?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:04:50 11/04/02

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On November 04, 2002 at 15:20:14, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>Making any computer program be "self-aware" would require some extra software,
>and the CPU time devoted to running this extra software would take away from the
>total CPU time available to the chess engine.
>
>But, for the sake of discussion, suppose that the time required would be
>negligible.  In that case, is there any way that the self-awareness could
>improve the performance of the engine?
>
>How about learning?  Would that not be facilitated by some sort of
>"self-awareness?
>
>Is this, in anybody's opinion, a promising area of research for future
>developments in chess engine technology?

I experimented with a complete AI in my chessprogram, and it soon
developed a sense of self-awareness, but I noticed it tended to
get discracted towards other things than computerchess, so I had
to kill it off.

Too bad.

--
GCP



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