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Deep Blue preceded this. They had specialty equipment for crunching chess moves. Really excellent hype machine. I liked the documentary about it: https://m.imd
by dpflan 5y ago
Deep Blue preceded this. They had specialty equipment for crunching chess moves. Really excellent hype machine.
I liked the documentary about it: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0379296/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0379296/
- alar44 5y agoI don't see the problem here, that was literally the point. To build a chess computer.
- civilized 5y agoThat was the last time IBM was cool. That and it was cool when Watson won at Jeopardy.
- space_fountain 5y agoI think maybe the common problem is that there’s a hidden and false assumption that being good in one domain will transfer elsewhere, it doesn’t and didn’t
- mlindner 5y agoI think the above poster's point was that they think Watson's point was to build a Jeopardy machine (and hype).
- freewilly1040 5y agoThe Jeopardy thing was pretty brilliant in a sense - wrangling an episode of free advertising from one of the most popular game shows. A memorable episode at that!
- indigodaddy 5y agoWas Deep Blue/Watson basically the starting point of AI/ML, or had that already been happening earlier or concurrently?
- School-Cotton 5y agoDeep Blue and Watson aren’t the same thing. Deep Blue was a chess computer from the 90s — and it was not the first chess computer, so regardless of whether you consider computer chess to be part of AI, the answer is no.
- Kye 5y agoIt's a shame we never got a cross of Deep Blue and Battle Chess. Make those chess masters fight for their lives.
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- cuteboy19 5y agoDeep Blue isn't ML at all, it's just a purpose built system for solving chess. It doesn't learn anything as such and just a fancy brute forcing machine that (smartly) goes through all possible chess moves and selects the best possible tree of outcomes. The work on actual ML happened independently of this.
- captaincaveman 5y agomehh feels like we are creating fancy ML brute force crunching machines now
- quirino 5y agoAlternatively, there's a great Deep Blue documentary by Fredrik Knudsen on YouTube https://youtu.be/HwF229U2ba8 https://youtu.be/HwF229U2ba8