Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:57:08 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 21:40:01, Matt Frank wrote: [snip] >There it is, the definitive statement. Just how strong do you think Deep Blue >was? Most observers put it between 2850-3000 when it beat Kasparov in "97. That >machine would be beatable or within reach under my proposition. Any estimate would be pure extrapolation. One match against a GM can't tell us the answer. I think that the dismantling of deep blue was one of the great tragedies in U.S. history. I mean, nobody died or anything, but the loss of the information that could have been gained is simply, utterly, hopelessly tragic. I think that melting down the statue of liberty for scrap would be on the same scale. I mean, there was only one of them! And they took it apart. One thing we do know, it beat the best human player in the world, fair and square. Was Kasparov just a bit freaked out? Since they can't play over and over we will never know. It is also possible that a fundamental flaw could be discovered such that a 286 could beat it, armed with that knowlege. So in other words, an opinion in a near complete vacuum of knowlege is just as ephemeral as a fading idea as we pass into sleep, and has about the same tangibility. That's my opinion of how strong it was.
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