Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 12:04:53 02/15/99
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On February 12, 1999 at 19:01:05, Bert Seifriz wrote: >On February 12, 1999 at 15:26:09, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>I read Larry Kaufman's review of AlexS on CCC, and I find it inaccurate to the >>same extent > >Yes, it is true, Larry did not catch what actually happened. >And we did neither at the beginning. >In fact, ALEXS learns nothing. It was CREATED with a learning program. >With an AI program the author says. >The point is the user would like to have the Artificial >Intelligence program himself. Mr van Tiggelen says this is much >too expensive and too complicated to use in the current >status. This maybe true. >But as stated earlier, this would just be the interesting thing: >a stupid program which starts learning and then it draws its >own rules! Such a program seems to be decades away! That is why I put it on my Krash list. It is no better and a lot worse than some freeware programs. I don't care and any other user doesn't either in how a program was created. The "proof is in the pudding so to speak". With little or no features and weaker in strength than Crafty, why would anybody buy the program? Since there is no way to make the program learn anything it is no different than any other artificial or commercial chess engine. Anybody can say they have an AI program. Indeed all the commercial programmers say that their program is very intelligent. So even if ALEXS is based on AI methods that others don't use, to the end user that buys the program there is no difference. The end user might as well buy CSTAL if he wants a program that plays wildly different chess and is a lot stronger than ALEXS. -- Komputer Korner
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