Humankind Makes Last Stand Against Machine

MrZeebo writes "According to this Financial Times story, Garry Kasparov has begun another match against a computer chess program on Sunday, this time playing against the Israeli-developed Deep Junior. Kasparov is the highest-rated chess player of all time, and lost to Deep Blue in 1997. According to the article, Deep Junior, despite evaluating less moves per minute than Deep Blue, is considered to be a superior chess player. The match will span 6 games, the last one being February 7th." Kasparov has won the first game.

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Re:dear slightly less-than dumbass moderator,

[herrd0kt0r]

i commend you for moderating fairly! the parent to this is indeed offtopic. bravo!

but still, rather than wasting your time deciding who sux0rz...

oh, nevermind.
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Re:How do they tell?

[cgenman]

I will do that if you can find me a com port that puts out 100V DC. Now, I've never taken apart a Cray, but I think that is unlikely.

I have done the latter with 115v AC... Three times. Stupid cheap weedwhackers. I was never actively pushed away as you describe, I only managed to force my fingers open after several seconds of trying.

We also haven't mentioned Amperage yet, or actual wattage, but as in the normal course of computer operations the DC supplies are powered off of AC imputs, the AC supply would still have significantly higher wattage backing it.

I suppose if our homicidally negligent designers gave the system a DC-based UPS *and* gave the computer regulation over the line *and* didn't include any fuses anywhere between the UPS and the motherboard and the motherboard and the com port and the com port and the pieces on the chessboard *and* made the power regulation channel extremely beefy and insulated enough to withold a few tenths of a second of a current of sufficient magnitude to be channeled to a table and to a human being and yet find insufficient release opportunities between components on the motherboard, the controller board, the port itself, the cabling, or the table it was played on *and* didn't think to tell the guy to wear gloves then yes, it is possible that a computer could really shock someone playing chess.

It is still impossible with current technology that it would "intend" to do that.