Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 03:46:14 04/27/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 11:32:20, chandler yergin wrote: >""It was a watershed event, but it doesn't have to do with computers becoming >intelligent," said Douglas Hofstadter, a professor of computer science at >Indiana University and author of several books about human intelligence, >including "Godel, Escher, Bach," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980, with its >witty argument about the connecting threads of intellect in various fields of >expression. "They're just overtaking humans in certain intellectual activities >that we thought required intelligence. My God, I used to think chess required >thought. Now, I realize it doesn't. It doesn't mean Kasparov isn't a deep >thinker, just that you can bypass deep thinking in playing chess, the way you >can fly without flapping your wings." In Game 1 Kasparov could prove the superiority of his chess. Then IBM/Hsu began the gamble with new personalities for the machine. But this has already been proven by the famous Monty Hall Show. You can't get a clue (through superior probabilities for instance) to solve the problem. It's either luck or bad luck. Of course Deep Blue Two still couldn't win a single game. So Kasparov helped out. He threw away a dead drawn game and then in the last game Kasparov had just a single need and that was to show the World the nonsense he went through in that show event. Now he gambled and went down in ten moves in the famous Las Vegas chess opening for coffeehouse players! - Perhaps now Hofstadter can find a new perception on that event in 1997...
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