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As one of the first humans to have their job outperformed by a computer I feel Gary has taken it well in stride. I suspect the rest won't be so gracious.
by peculiarbird 9y ago
As one of the first humans to have their job outperformed by a computer I feel Gary has taken it well in stride. I suspect the rest won't be so gracious.
- darepublic 9y agoHe was still paid millions to continue performing his job. If after that match he was "fired" from chess I don't think he would take it in stride at all.
- nenreme 9y agoObviously he was not the first. Not even close.
- akanet 9y agoHe took it pretty badly at the time, though I'm glad to see he's come around.
- fiatjaf 9y agoI don't think he should concede it to machines like that.
- IanCal 9y ago> one of the first humans to have their job outperformed by a computer Perhaps relevant here is that "computer" was a term used to describe people who did computations.
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- adrianN 9y agoYou might want to look up where the term "computer" comes from. Hint: It was a job description. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
- lgas 9y agoRight... except in this context we're clearly talking about digital computers. Intentionally confusing the two does not contribute to the discussion.
- adrianN 9y agoNo, in this context we're talking about things digital computers can do better than humans. Doing arithmetic was the first job where digital computers replaced humans, so my comment is quite relevant to the discussion.
- icc97 9y agoIt actually sounded like he was still hurt by it, he was very derogatory about Deepblue, it had no intelligence, just cruching numbers etc. He was finding other faults with it except for the bit that beat him. The quotes I've heard coming out about Alpha Go (from Go players) seem to be more repectful - that it's actually teaching professional go players new ways of playing.
- annnnd 9y agoOf course Go players probably saw it coming. Also, Google knew that he needed to leave good impression, not just beat the best human player.
- pk2200 9y agoYes, but it took 20 years for Kasparov to find that grace. After losing game 2 of the 1997 match to Deep Blue, he accused the IBM team of cheating, by allowing a human grandmaster to override DB at a critical moment in the game. He repeated this bogus claim for many years, before finally coming to his senses.
- shawnz 9y agoYou could argue that the automatic loom of the 1700s was the first computer that could outperform humans, and the people it replaced were so ungracious that it began the Luddite movement.