http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/jur...

http://openjurist.org/999/f2d/497/u...

Kasparov says "Look, it can't even swim! Now it has to learn it! Stupid computer!"

and in the explaning box it says

"After the defeat, Kasparov wanted to test if the computer also was better at other things"

"A few months after all the work I did on the <Deep Blue project>, at the US Championship, I thought <"miserable Earthlings, you have no chance against me!" <>>

-- Joel Benjamin

"In certain situations, <Deep Blue> plays like a God.

-- Kasparov

I just think we should look at this as a chess match between the world's greatest chess player, and Garry Kasparov.

~ Lou Gerstner (IBM Chairman)

<Toward the end of my interview with him, [Murray] Campbell somewhat mischievously referred to an incident that had occurred toward the end of the first game in their 1997 match with Kasparov.

“A bug occurred in the game and it may have made Kasparov misunderstand the capabilities of Deep Blue,” Campbell told me. “He didn’t come up with the theory that the move it played was a bug.”

The bug had arisen on the forty-fourth move of their first game against Kasparov; unable to select a move, the program had defaulted to a last-resort fail-safe in which it picked a play completely at random. The bug had been inconsequential, coming late in the game in a position that had already been lost; Campbell and team repaired it the next day. “We had seen it once before, in a test game played earlier in 1997, and thought that it was fixed,” he told me. “Unfortunately there was one case that we had missed.”

In fact, the bug was anything but unfortunate for Deep Blue: it was likely what allowed the computer to beat Kasparov. In the popular recounting of Kasparov’s match against Deep Blue, it was the second game in which his problems originated—when he had made the almost unprecedented error of forfeiting a position that he could probably have drawn.

But what had inspired Kasparov to commit this mistake? His anxiety over Deep Blue’s forty-fourth move in the first game—the move in which the computer had moved its rook for no apparent purpose. Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered that it was simply a bug.>

Meh.

"Saying <Deep Blue> doesn't really think about chess is like saying an airplane doesn't really fly because it doesn't flap its wings. "

The Human vs Machine: AlphaGo (Google DeepMind) vs Lee Sedol match received much press coverage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha...

The ancient game of Go is significant (in part) because, by important metrics, it has a greater game complexity than Chess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_...

Jeff Bezos' remark raises an interesting possibility: what if we were to limit Chess computers by POWER, limiting them (as he suggests) to 50 watts (or whatever the human limit is).

It would be an interesting equalization!

I hope you are all well & in good spirits....

I have previously suggested that perhaps a good way to handicap computers to bring them down to the level of humans is by time handicapping. After all, if the computer's main advantage over humans is their speed and capacity of calculation, then a logical way to make the odds more even is to limit the amount of calculation they can do by giving the human a time handicap.

The issue is then to determine how much of a handicap does the human need to be given in order to equalize the odds. I have suggested an approach that will not require too much human time to determine this handicap, most recently here: Stockfish (Computer) (kibitz #117). But I doubt that there would be much interest in trying it.

I had a meeting with a buddy of mine. He is a high level guy at <IBM. >

It has been my opinion for sometime that <IBM will be filing for bankruptcy soon.> This could be within a year or so, maybe more. The timing is something I can't be totally accurate on. So let me paint a picture.

- We have opened up 10 new office sites, each being multi-million dollar sites.
Five of these are shut down do to loss of revenue. This is massive.

They spent MILLIONS building these sites and their projects to deploy them and poof!

- In the last few weeks, whole teams of skilled, seasoned professionals have been fired on the spot, to cut cost, even when their position is vital to success of projects we are working on.

- Not long ago, a set of hardware failures happened at a given site. The replacement had to be put on hold for a $200 part because nobody could sign or had enough funds allocated to them for sign off.

- More than 100 projects have been canceled or delayed due to financial issues. I estimate these projects to be budgeted at at least 100+ million dollars. Big projects...

- People are being asked to change the hours they work on their time cards to lower employment costs <(illegal BTW).>

- Third parties used to have a mechanism to sign for very urgent projects before receiving payment. For example, if IBM sent out a project support request to a third party, but IBM did not yet receive the funds from their client, there was a contractual promise to pay.

From what I know, <IBM> always honored this. However, 3rd parties stopped allowing this due to the amount of requests like this they were receiving.

When Deep Blue Defeated Kasparov, a Young Girl Was Watching

U of G prof switched careers from chess to quantum computing

'.. In 1997, IBM created and programmed a computer named “Deep Blue” that was able to beat Garry Kasparov, then the reigning world chess champion. The outcome of that tournament made headlines around the world. It also changed the life of a 17-year-old girl in Chengdu, China.

..

When Kasparov faced off against Deep Blue, Zeng Bei [曾蓓] was five years into her career as a professional chess player. She’d been named China’s national chess master when she was only 14 and won an international bronze medal the same year.

Bei grew up as part of a chess-playing family. Her father, Zeng Zilin, was the head coach of China’s national team and had begun coaching her ─ at her request ─ when she was eight years old. Her aunt, Shilan Liu, was the first female All-Asia Chess Grandmaster.

“My dream had been to continue as a professional chess player,” says Bei. “But after the computer beat Kasparov, I saw the limitations of that career. I decided to go to university.”

Despite not having the prerequisites, Zeng Bei was accepted into the physics and mathematics program at China’s Tsinghua University.

..

And does she still play chess? Not often. “I love chess so much, but I play it with intense concentration and focus. I don’t play for fun. Now I put that focus and time into my research instead,” she says. On the other hand, she has no doubts that she could beat pretty much anyone brave enough to take her on. “You never forget,” she says. ..'

https://guides.uoguelph.ca/2010/11/...

by University of Guelph, 2010

In 2019, she joined the Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as a Professor.