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Subject: Re: Komputer Korner Krash List #7: ALEXS

Author: Bert Seifriz

Date: 12:18:30 01/08/99

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On January 08, 1999 at 13:45:06, Albert Silver wrote:

>On January 08, 1999 at 11:06:48, Dan Kiski wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 1999 at 10:51:33, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
SNIP!!
>Why do you say KK does a better job than that? What does KK have to do with the
>page you presented? I saw no mention of a review by him.

Yes, you are right. The mentioned page is by me and not by KK. But
I would most agree with Fernando. ALEXS was supposed to be a new type
of chess software based on artificial intelligence. And then it turned
out that only the author, Mr van Tiggelen, had used new means, but that
the buyer got a program where he could not change anything.
Mr van Tiggelen contacted me a few times about that and the main
idea was that the programs he uses to produce artificial
intelligence programs like ALEXS are much too complicated and too
expensive and maybe not even available to the general public
for use.
They are making programs which should be able to predict the stock market,
for example. Now what is your input then: numbers and numbers of old
happenings at the stock market in all combinations and correlations.
Question: is this artificial intelligence?
But maybe it would be different at chess. Imagine a program which knows
the rules and nothing else. And then you play against it and it learns, and
then it is as stupid as you. So you start feeding it with Grandmaster
games and it learns and learns. I think such a program would be the
baby darling of all here. The idea is intrigueing but not quite likely
at the moment! Bert/gambitsoft



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