Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:17:46 12/16/99
A similar thread brings up an interesting question, "What is AI?" An old test was supposed to be that if we are playing a remote opponent we can't tell if it is a human or a machine. I think that can probably be achieved now (especially if we throw in a bit of randomness). Then what tends to happen is that we say, "That's not really artificial intelligence. After all, it's just a machine, so it _can't_ be." We simply move the target and we are safe from the encroachment of the machine into "our" domain. If (for instance) I was playing some opponent using Winboard and I only knew it was one of: "Kasparov" "Deep Blue" I would have no way of guessing which was which, since either one would pound my stuffings out effortlessly. So the question stands, "What is AI?" and along with it, the related question, "Are chess programs intelligent?"
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