Author: Peter Kasinski
Date: 06:03:35 01/31/03
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On January 30, 2003 at 13:10:47, Matthew Hull wrote: >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 > > >Perhaps a distinction should be made. They way humans go about solving a >problem at the board does require intelligence in the classical sense. However, >they way in which computers go about solving the problem has everything to do >with the intelligence of the programmers, and nothing to do with the supposed >intelligence of the adding machine that's running a chess program or the chess >program itself. > >A procedure has no intelligence of it's own. All the intelligence is with the >one arranging the procedure. > >Regards, >Matt Intelligence is often attributed in funny way. I remember someone (from IBM as a matter of fact!) telling me that the one truly artificially intelligent thing in this world is a thermos bottle. It keeps warm things warm, and it keeps cold things cold. How does it know? :-) PK
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