Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:21:13 02/29/00
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On February 28, 2000 at 16:27:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 28, 2000 at 16:13:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: >[snip] > >>Unfortunately, IBM also managed to bash the computer chess field on the head >>repeatedly with a big rock. > >I am curious about this statement. In what way has this occurred? The average person thinks that a computer is better than the world champion now. This is probably not true, but there is no way to disprove the statement. So if some program plays a strong human and loses, it's because it's not as good as DB, and if it wins, well, DB beat a stronger player, and if it beats the strongest player, the accomplishment is diminished because DB did it first. I have personal respect for Hsu and Campbell, but IBM (the corporation) is a carpet-bagger. By this I mean that they entered our field for completely self-interested reasons, took everything that they were able to take, then when they decided that they had nothing left to gain by remaining, they left permanently. That wasn't a scientific project, it was an attempt to create an advertising vehicle more efficient than a 30-second Super Bowl commercial. The whole thing had to have been driven by marketing weasels right out of some Dilbert cartoon. bruce
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