(May 22, 2017 at 1:55 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:You are indeed correct. I humbly accept the rebuke.(May 21, 2017 at 4:36 pm)Succubus Wrote: Artificial intelligence was amply demonstrated in 1977 when Deep Blue beat chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov. As impressive as IBM's achievement was, Deep Blue was just a computer doing computer shit, lots of switches in an on/off state. Was the machine actually playing chess or was it selecting from an enormous pool of options? I don't know. If that's what artificial intelligence is, then fine, ok.
Now artificial consciousness or self awareness is something very different, and we are nowhere near creating such a machine. Praise be.
Well considering that Deep Blue simply beat Kasparov by being faster and more accurate at evaluating a large but finite and very well defined set of moves, and not through any application of intelligence, your first sentence doesn't hold up.
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It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
