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Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer

Posted by timothy on from the invaders-in-the-human-castle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "X-bit labs has posted very interesting editorial called "Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer". During the last 10 years computers penetrated into various spheres of human life. In this article guys try to find out how well computers can play chess and if it would be correct to say that artificial intelligence is superior to human mind. Interesting read."

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  1. Chessmaster 8000 always beats me as is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    at least Chessmaster can't post on ./ how it beat me 5 times in a row.

    1. Re:Chessmaster 8000 always beats me as is... by Chessmaster+8000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      at least Chessmaster can't post on ./ how it beat me 5 times in a row.

      Can't I?

      I look forward to beating you five more times tomorrow night.

    2. Re:Chessmaster 8000 always beats me as is... by QQ2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Allright this is the last straw
      I've been beaten by this thing all through my life and I always took comfort that there was atleast one thing that I could achieve before the Chessmaster

      getting a +5 funny at slashdot

      Nooooooooooo damn you, now my failure is complete
      /me runs out to grab large sword and commit harikiri

  2. Re:Interesting, but... by ergonal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good chess players just create_suspense(x) before making a move, where x is the amount of suspense, and generally increases as the game develops. When this function finishes they make a random move based on the "ooh" and "aah"'s they receive when they touch different pieces. If there's no crowd they use the expression on their opponents face in place of this decision-making process. It's a lot like winning the lottery. These chess players aren't really THAT smart.

  3. Raising the AI bar higher and higher by Saeger · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, but, can any AI write a human-biased article for a newspaper about the chessmatch it just observed? I don't think so! And if it can, it's a witch, and should be burned aliv^H^H^H^H^H.

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    Power to the Peaceful
  4. Re:The problem with your argument. by slimak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haven't you been watching any scifi movies in the past couple of decades? As I have, I can tell you that this is a very bad idea. Once the computers can do things we don't indend, the will either

    1) attempt to destroy us
    2) enslave us
    3) sell us on ebay

    we have seen time and time again that AI is pure evil and no good can come of it.

  5. Re:The problem with your argument. by B3ryllium · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man wasn't originally designed to post to slashdot ... though only because slashdot did not exist at the time, and needed to be created by man first.

    And was man created to create Slashdot? While CmdrTaco and CowgirlNeal might think so, I somehow doubt it. :)

  6. Re:The problem with your argument. by B3ryllium · · Score: 2, Funny

    What has always baffled me (instead of the engine being unable to move itself) is rocket propulsion in space ... :)