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Chess Improves Machines and Humans Alike

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pawn-to-e4 dept.

erick99 writes "Chess provides a window into some more arcane philosophical matters. The remainder of this article will focus on two difficult, and interrelated, questions. The first has to do with the nature of reality; the second is about the prospects for human and artificial intelligence in grappling with reality. In both cases, the search for an answer leads through a board game with 32 pieces and 64 squares."

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  1. Like a chess piece by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I achieve a first post.

  2. Check and mate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    YOU FAIL IT.

  3. Re:US double standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would your country like to do something about them?

    Bloody hell, the US is hated enough because they dip their hands into most of the world, and you're lambasting them because they dont do enough to please you? //Dont mind us, just a couple of trolls.

  4. Re:Vulcan science by sunnytzu · · Score: 1, Troll

    I am a philosopher and hence have a little more time for philosophy than you, but this article is shallow and weak. This is to philosophy what idle musings on how everything is uncertain thanks to Heisenberg is to quantum physics. (I am also a physicist, as well as a philosopher).

  5. Re:What about GO? by hippycow · · Score: 0, Troll

    Go is only complex by dint of having a large playing board. Really it is a simple (and boring!) game with large dimensions.