Fool's mate: IBM's chess-playing computer may see beating Garry Kasparov as a leap forward for artificial intelligence. Sucker.(Editorial) From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 3, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Chess champion Garry Kasparov will play another series of games with IBM's Deep Blue chess program in 1997. Many observers are concerned with humans being outsmarted by computers, but chess ability is merely computational and not a measure of intelligence.

SOMETHING about chess champions scares ordinary mortals. Even the title "grandmaster" seems chosen to emphasise their superiority to most people. In the minds of many, playing chess well ranks alongside understanding higher mathematics or the more obscure by-ways of Wittgenstein's philosophy as a testing ground of human cleverness. ...

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