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

Author: Simon Finn

Date: 13:19:41 11/04/02

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On November 04, 2002 at 16:04:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.

After re-entering the ship through the emergency airlock, I presume.

Simon

>
>Too bad.
>
>--
>GCP



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