Kasparov ties again!

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NEW YORK (AP) -- World chess champion Garry Kasparov tied his computerized opponent X3D Fritz in a final match, leaving the four-game series in a draw.

The match pitted Kasparov against a 12-year-old computer program that has recently been developed into a virtual reality game by X3D Technologies.

This is really sad. I remember last year when Kasparov played Karpov in X3D. sadly, Kasparov lost. He used to be so damn good, but now he's losing it. He tied Deep Junior the last time they played. Anyone remember when he played "Kasparov vs. The world"? All these people around the world sent their suggestions for a move against Kasparov, and these panel of professional chess players would decide to pick a few good ones, and people would vote. Kasparov won, but it was a close match.

Sad to know that machines are beating us at our own game.

After the game X3D Fritz, which can compute more than five million chess positions per second, offered its own congratulations to Kasparov.

"With your brainpower, you challenged my Intel Quad Processor, Xeon 2.8 Mhz chip with four gigs of RAM," it said. "Not an easy task."

4 gigs?

Potential ATS server canadate?

Read Dennett's book Consciousness explained. It'll help clear things up for you.

DE

There is still hope for the human animal in all this endeavour.

When the machine becomes smarter or more devious than humans then we are in trouble.

Also once the machines start to have free thought, and think for themselves......that will be dangerous unless limits are put on there thought patterns.

Really, I don't see what the big deal is; as machines get smarter and faster witted, so will humans.� When you talk about all the advancements made in AI, don't forget about the advancements made in human sciences.� Remember all the controversy about cloning?� Well, that's only a small thing of what is to come.� Think of this: in the future, DNA will be altered for higher intelligences; every human being could have higher IQs than the most intelligent geniuses right now: 200-250, maybe even more.� And, the increasage doesn't stop there; it only begins.� DNA will not be the final step; we will integrate machines into ourselves.� Think of hooking a compute processor into your brain.� The boosts would be unimaginable!� A human would process information and think literally hundreds of thousands of times faster, maybe even infinite, depending on the machine.� So, in a nutshell, as machines get smarter, so will we.� If ou choose to think of this as a violent power struggle, shame be on you, but : there will always be a balance of power, and ultimately that power should stay with us.� If you are a peaceful, optimistic person then to you machines, computers and humanity hold and will share a peaceful future with promising prospects to look forward to, together.

He lost cause the puter can think of about one million moves in a second.

while humans think of one move at a time.

So its good he tied cause that means our heads that think one move at a time are eqaul to a puter that thinks one million moves at a time.

thats pretty inpersive.

Actually, chess masters (I used to play chess professionally) can think hundreds of moves ahead. The machine, however, can "think" thousands of moves ahead and has the records of ALL the games Kasparov and the grandmasters ever played in storage.

It's amazing that he can beat the machine at all (it isn't "thinking", it's merely making code-prompted decisions based on input.) Kasparov has to know the same material the machine does and do what the machine can NOT do -- create a move that's not in the data banks.