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Men vs. Machines

Posted by michael on from the gluttons-for-punishment dept.

FFriedel writes "In October classical chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik is scheduled to play Deep Fritz in Bahrain. Now Garry Kasparov, who lost his title to Kramnik in 2000, but is still ranked as the strongest player in the world, has announced that he will play the computer chess world champion Deep Junior in Jerusalem at almost exactly the same time. Both programs are distributed by ChessBase. In 1997 Kasparov lost his famous match against Deep Blue."

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  1. Re:For the chess nuts by caferace · · Score: 5, Funny
    That's true. I know a bunch of engineers that would be hard pressed to match the turing test.

    Some of them are pretty good at chess though.

  2. Eh, kinda... by Jayde+Stargunner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if the human really doesn't talk about anything in particular, and expects a meaningful response. ALICE cannot give meaningful responces.

    ALICE would probably make a good CEO, rather than a conversation tool.

    CEOBot: What would you like to know?
    Interviewer: What were your profits this year?
    CEOBot: What would you like to know about our profits this year?
    Interviewer: How much were they?
    CEOBot: How much do you think they were?
    Interviewer: Well, you claimed 22billion.
    CEOBot: I'm afraid I really don't know anything about that. Would you like me to sing you a song?

    -Jayde

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