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Subject: Re: What about evaluation, Ed?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 17:01:53 01/04/03

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On January 04, 2003 at 19:56:03, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On January 04, 2003 at 19:30:48, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On January 04, 2003 at 19:25:28, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On January 04, 2003 at 19:21:31, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>
>>>>For each new idea, there are many potential improvements. If Ed has contributed
>>>>10 new ideas, now there are tens of potential improvements...
>>>
>>>Refinements, not new ideas.
>>
>>Looking from that perspective, have there been any new ideas ever?! For example,
>>MTD(f) is a refinement of NegaScout which is a refinement of PVS which is a
>>refinement of AlphaBeta which is a refinement of MinMax which is a refinement
>>of....
>>
>>All refinements, no new ideas!
>
>Yes, but the new ideas get smaller and smaller, convergence is inevitable.
>Convergence kills the sport, so let's slow it down a bit :)
>

Indeed they become more complicated and more technical. A decade ago an average
AI academic could often understand computer chess algorithms, while nowadays if
he reads a recent computer chess publication, he would most probably think he is
reading Chinese!


>-S.



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