Neither the Jeopardy-playing computer nor the chess-playing one has any sense of how a soccer ball bounces.
IBM's chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue and its predecessor took six years of fine-tuning before finally beating chess master Garry Kasparov in 1997.
We may look at a robot as being incredibly adultlike and smart: Machines such as IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue and "Jeopardy!"
He ranges over a number of themes, from seismology to chess-playing, but exhibit A is the American housing crash of 2007-08 that triggered the financial crisis.
The contrast with Deep Blue, the chess-playing machine, is telling.
This notion was revived in the 1950s, when the building of a genuine chess-playing machine was seen by artificial-intelligence researchers as a stepping-stone towards a general theory of machine intelligence.
"It's a long way to go, and is like a combination of playing three-dimensional chess and bridge and trying to run a NASA space programme, all at the same time, " he added.
Kramnik lost, 4-2 to the multi-processor version of Chessbase's commercial software in Bonn, Germany. (To Kramnik's credit, in 2002, he'd held Deep Fritz to a draw.) However, this match may end interest in further advancing the field of chess-playing computers, according to Monty Newborn, a professor of computer science at McGill University.
ENGADGET: Computer beats world chess champion, moving on to poker and go
As Russell Glasser put it (paraphrasing), engaging in counter-apologetics is like playing Chess.
The stakes just got higher in the 3-D chess game China is playing for natural resources.
Programming quickly became associated with a male-stereotyped activity like math or playing chess.
While the rest of the city darts around in sharp suits, with a takeaway coffee in one hand and an iPhone in the other, old men sit on wooden stools at the entrance to their hundred-year-old hutong bungalows, drinking beer, playing chess and chewing the fat.
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