Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:24:05 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 19:42:44, blass uri wrote: [snip] >Their behavior proves that they are not interested in public opinion. >If they want to get respect and Deep blue Junior is really better than the >commercials then they can get the respect by playing against commercial programs >many games and proving a clear superiority. > >The fact that they do not do it is a proof that they are not interested in >public opinion. Campbell and Hsu work for someone: IBM. The machine (I am sure) belongs to IBM and not to them. I suspect it they had their druthers, Deep Blue would play on the internet, and kick some high quality opponents in the posterior. However, IBM has nothing to gain from this and everything to lose. Consider also, a machine like the RS/6000 used in the Deep Blue experiment can make millions of dollars per year in revenue. (Just consider the gains from Simplex optimization for a single oil refinery, for example.) Now, it might be a ton of fun to play chess with it on the internet but that's not really even good science. Since the conditions would be totally uncontrolled all you would get out of it is "fun." That's some mighty expensive fun. I see no arrogance. I see no air of superiority or disdain. I see cold, hard, economic facts. On the other hand, IBM is one of the top reasearch institutions in the world. They even produced an incredible chess machine (hint: we're talking about it right now some two years since it was publicly available so it must have been pretty interesting). Their list of IBM Fellows reads like a "Who's who of science." The number of innovations and great ideas that spring from IBM reasearch is astonishing. I do lots of research looking for ways to optimize SQL queries. You would be amazed at how often top quality research is found to be available online at IBM sites. I think a lot of people are a bit miffed. After all, we had what I consider the 8th wonder of the world pulled out from under our noses before we got to play with it. But it's not our toy, nor does it even belong to the ones who were playing with it -- yes not even to the ones who built it. And the one who owns it can do anything he wants to with it -- even make money (or engage in scientific research endeavors). [snip]
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