Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 10:10:33 01/30/03
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On January 30, 2003 at 12:58:29, Graham Laight wrote: >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 Hehehe, the picture in the article is from Bahrain, when Kramnik had his serious accident! Read the details in my http://hometown.aol.de/rolftueschen/topsecret.html But do me a favour. Please keep it secret! We shouldn't laugh about the poor chess masters. What can they do if they must make mistakes against a machine and they are almost unable to make mistakes as the best humans. Sure, the Brits then also make their jokes about our heroes. That isn't fair!!! Very angry about Brits, who show photos with Kramnik playing chess all naked, Rolf Tueschen
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