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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, another Pulitzer-prizewinning contributor, strayed from his role as an Essayist seven weeks ago to write a beguiling piece for us about a chess match between Garry Kasparov and a computer. This week, in his Viewpoint column, Krauthammer, who has a medical degree and is a board-certified psychiatrist, addresses a subject on which he's even more qualified: judicial rulings on the right to die. "Medical ethics is the one area of medicine I still follow," says Krauthammer, who warns against allowing doctors to kill terminally ill patients. "Once these lines are crossed, the other side...
...COMPUTER'S WINNING AT chess that disturbs me; a simple calculator can beat me at math. But when the computer sitting across from chess champion Garry Kasparov is instructed to play, and its screen reads, ''I'd rather not,'' then I'll start worrying about whether the next person I meet is a Terminator. Independent thought is the advantage we humans (currently) have over ''thinking'' machines. CLAY LOOMIS Arroyo Grande, California Via E-mail...
...SHOW WHAT COMPUTERS CANNOT DO, match one with a poet. If the machine has any intelligence, it will say nolo contendere. The computer should compete with Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate poet, not with a chess master like Kasparov. This doesn't mean that Heaney has a "soul" and the machine does not. It means that nature's thinkers--humans, with their art, humor and compassion--can be mimicked by science but never matched. Not now. Not ever. DANIEL C. MAGUIRE Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...UNFORTUNATE THAT A REPORT inspired by the chess-playing program of Deep Blue did not even bother to name IBM's Murray Campbell and Thomas Anantharaman, the scientists who were the program's authors. Artificial intelligence's other technical leaders were similarly ignored. When machines do think, it will be the scientists, not the showmen, who deserve the credit. MATTHEW GINSBERG Eugene, Oregon...
...natural selection--and has written extensively about it, both in his 1994 book, The Moral Animal, and in a TIME cover story last August, "Twentieth Century Blues." In this week's cover story, contributor Wright examines the philosophical questions raised by "artificial intelligences" such as Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer that nearly defeated the human world champion, Garry Kasparov. In addition, Kasparov writes about the moment during the match when he first sensed that he was in the presence of a real, albeit somewhat alien, intelligence...