Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 11:39:36 10/19/04
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On October 19, 2004 at 07:47:06, Tony Nichols wrote:
>We already have handicap matches! You don't see humans consulting opening books
>or endgame tablebases during the game, do you?
>No! Computers have to use opening books because they don't understand our so
>called crutches.
>A computer doesn't understand anything. Maybe one day a computer will "steadily
>count down the number of moves untill mate" but it will start at move 35 of a
>Najdorf and stop when then endgame tablebases kick in!
I wrote:
>>...while you snicker at how it doesn't even understand...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Snicker away ;)
Again, you are putting a means before an end. That's backwards. It doesn't
matter if the means is a human brain, artificial neural network, game tree
search, or endgame tablebase, if it achieves the end. Soon the human brain will
not be the best means.
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