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Subject: Re: In 10 years man will not be able to defeat computers. WHAT??!

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 01:23:30 01/28/03

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On January 27, 2003 at 19:22:19, andrew tanner wrote:

>    There seems to be no basis for this belief other than DEEP BLUE and it's
>legacy, which is a legacy of "the sky is falling" type of despair. If computers
>continue to improve tactically, then GM's will learn from them and also improve
>tactically. Man has always improved in everything he does. Accelerated rates of
>improvement for chess computers with faster hardware or knowldege doesn't
>automatically translate into wins against strong GM's. Bring it on.
>
>    -A.T.

As Kasparov himself said, it will only be a few years before computers will
routinely beat the top chess players, and these sort of man vs. machine
tournaments will be a thing of the past. Chess programs are often referred to as
being artificially intelligent, which I think is simply incorrect--it's all
number crunching, no AI involved at all.

Now if a computer could beat a Go master, that would impressive. Go has way more
possibilities to it, making it impossible (so far) for a computer to play by
brute force. There is a standing $2 million dollar prize for writing the first
computer program to beat a Go master.

Pichard



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