From: Alejandro Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 23:59:56 MDT
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 13:11, spike66 wrote:
>
> This cat is definitely not going to enjoy the Singularity. Wei Dai is
> clearly
> a stronger mathematician that I, yet somehow I have managed to continue
> my existence. A computer served up Kasparov's head on a platter only
> 6 years after he made this comment, yet he survived just the same. Most
> serious chess players today can be routinely stomped flat by palm pilots.
>
> You may recall last summer there was a man vs machine chess match
> between current world champion Vladimir Kramnik and Deep Fritz,
> a commercial software package running on an ordinary PC. That match
> was postponed because of the 9-11 attack, but has been rescheduled
> for later this year. The insiders are saying that Deep Fritz on a PC is
> a stronger player than the jillion-processor Deep Blue.
By insiders, do you mean Kramnik, who might just be trying to grab
attention for the match, or someone else?.
Btw, GM Smirin handing the top 4 computer programs their collective
headers on a (hard disk) platter back in may doesn't forebode well for
Fritz, especially considering Kramnik's past games showing he knows
anti-computerish quite well. Fritz's main advantage are the short time
controls.
>
> This match should be fun to watch. In each previous match I was
> cheering for the machine but betting on the man. This time my money
> is on the machine too. spike
>
I'll take your money (although it'll have to be student-budget amounts).
alejandro
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