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Subject: Re: Is Hydra now the strongest Chess playing entity?

Author: Daniel Jackson

Date: 21:15:43 08/24/04

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On August 24, 2004 at 21:55:05, Derek Paquette wrote:

>On August 24, 2004 at 15:14:16, odell jones wrote:
>
>>Maybe there is still yet not enough games played?
>
>
>This is really a non issue,
>its proven its worth on the playchess site
>its beaten Shredder decisively
>It beat the hell out of that GM , 4th game pending, *more likely another win for
>hydra*
>
>Its running on a 16way, xeon system with FPGA cards in it,
>It has a Dr. in mathematical stastics programming it,
>It has TWO GM's advising,
>It has yet ANOTHER university doogooder helping with programming,
>It has a very large budget,
>
>of course it is the strongest in the world,

Maybe..
>
>Does all of this sound like something else? yes absolutely,
>Deep Blue, and at the time, DB was the strongest around, and at this time, Hydra
>is the strongest around,
>
>Now the true question of, have computers over-taken humans?
>your damn right they have,

No, they haven't, and the reason is knowledge, humans have it computers don't.

They have information, not knowledge.
>
>Hydra is the smallest of fish in a very big pond with very big fish in 'super
>computer' terms
>
>Deep Gene, which is being released in 2005 or 2006 (not sure if they have been
>delayed) is going to do 1 QUADRILLION calculations a second, the fastest right
>now is the Earth Simulator which does about 38 trillion, (if i remember
>correctly)

35 actually..
>
>If you were to spend the 250 MILLION dollars on Deep Gene, making a program for
>chess that runs on it, utilizing the 1 quadrillion calculations a second,
>
>you would find an unbeatable machine, even for other machines,

Other machines yes..
>
>there would be simply no comparison,
>with money comes brains
>with brains comes ideas
>with money comes resources
>with resources comes results
>
>You can't even compare a human to a true super computer at this point in the
>game,

Yes you can! Read above...

If the machine doesn't fully understand what to do in positions of a non
tactical nature, and they don't...they will be lulled into the hangman's noose,
and I don't care if they can do sextillion calculations per second, they could
be made to look stupid, because they are stupid!
>
>the 'meaning' of man vs machine at this point, is
>
>Desktop computer vs Human
>
>not man vs MACHINE.

Your opinion, one not shared by everyone.



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