Hydra, latest Chess supercomputer is about to take on British No.1 and World No.7 Michael Adams, and some comments from the news somehow makes the hairs on back of my neck stand up - as if there is some unknown danger around – some otherwise dormant sense kicks in - survival instincts may be?
And even the most arrogant human opponent does not give you a running tally of how thoroughly it is beating you, while it is doing it. The machine takes no pleasure in trouncing you and can't even go for a pint afterwards.
Blunders are the best illustration of why machines have an edge over humans. A human can have a bad night's sleep, hear some bad news, or have too much to drink the night before, and suffer.
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Sorry for commenting on you again, but came in via Hydrino serach and saw this too:
Penrose in his 'Shadows of the mind' shows how Deep Blue failed miserably at an 'obvious'chess problem - obvious to any 2-bit human, but after CPU overload and steam coming out of its ears Blue got the blues and took the bait, like the fool it is. The more fool he, as he doesn't have the human ability to grok meaning, of did the 'qualia'. Cool that our holistic consciousness can grasp the gestalt. What's the old vedic interpretation?
Ciao bello,
Hugh Deasy
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