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No-Brainer; In the Kasparov-Deep Blue Chess Battle, Only the Human Has His Wits About Him
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
May 10, 1997| Author:
Joel Achenbach
| Copyright 1997 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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The greatest chess player the world has ever known is
struggling to defeat a machine. It's another wonderful opportunity
for the human race, as a species, to engage in collective
self-loathing.
When astronomers discovered the true vastness of the universe
it became intellectually fashionable to ridicule our planet as an
unimportant and infinitesimal speck of schmutz, upon which our own
eye-blink existence was unworthy of mention in the glorious
narrative of the cosmos.
F...
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