Author: Graham Laight
Date: 09:58:29 01/30/03
Our favourite chess match of the week is the subject of the TOP ARTICLE in this week's Economist (which has just come out on the web), in which they make the case that chess playing ability does not represent intelligence. Of course - followers of AI will know that as a computer masters an ability, that skill no longer qualifies as intelligence. Until there's nothing left that humans can do better than computers! :) <Quote> THE idea that chess-playing skill is a proxy for machine intelligence is not new. It goes back as far as 1770, when Wolfgang von Kempelen, a Hungarian inventor, unveiled a wooden, clockwork-powered mannekin at the court of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria-Hungary. This machine, known as the Turk because of its exotic costume, could play chess, moving the pieces with a mechanical arm and defeating even the best human players. It was, of course, a trick—a hidden human operator controlled the automaton's movements—but some observers equated its chess prowess with intelligence. </Quote> To read the rest of the article, click here --> http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1559988
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