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> 'what are humans still good for?' To take this from chess is rather silly. Chess is a discrete game on 64 squares with a handful of possibilities in a given
by Almaviva 11y ago
> 'what are humans still good for?'
To take this from chess is rather silly.
Chess is a discrete game on 64 squares with a handful of possibilities in a given position, and a result of three different outcomes. It's right next to long division in the spectrum of problems that are amenable to computer analysis.
If anything, the surprise isn't that humans have been surpassed by computers in calculating chess positions, it's that humans are as good as we are at such a discrete and mechanical game of perfect information and logic.
Further the techniques to improve computer chess programs are brilliant, but they aren't techniques that lend themselves to domains of intelligence beyond chess.
- jacquesm 11y ago> Further the techniques to improve computer chess programs are brilliant, but they aren't techniques that lend themselves to domains of intelligence beyond chess. I beg to differ. MiniMax for instance is a technique that has wide application outside of chess, as do alpha/beta pruning and other optimization strategies. Chess as a game has advanced computer science considerably. Did you know that the first computer program was a chess program? It was played by having rooms full of people work through the code in order to compute the next move.