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Turning back to the guest, Barbosa remarks that the disruptive teenager is very interested in chess. He did well in the last tournament the center sponsored and is expected to do well once again in next week's tournament...
...watched chess before but never really played," Barbosa said. "And here, he discovered that he was really good at it. I guess that's what we're trying to do here...
Groups such as the Harvard Noteables performed for the multitudes of chess players, tourists, coffee-drinkers and those who would quietly sing along to songs like "Ain't Misbehavin...
...Chess master Garry Kasparov's report on his match with the computer Deep Blue was enchanting. It was a look inside a computer's brain by someone who knows how to do surgery on a person's thinking process. In order to think, computers will need emotion; they will need to feel pain. Thinking is imagination; it is discipline, kindness and love. It is also greed and hatred. Thinking is human. It is logical and illogical at the same time. Thinking is individual. Computers can be made to achieve a goal, but that goal needs to be created...
...amazes me that people would compare human thought to a pure number-crunching operation. Playing chess is number crunching; thinking is an entirely different game. Let me humbly offer a unique test for determining whether a computer can think. I call it the Dylan test. Build two artificial-intelligence machines exactly alike and load them with exactly the same software. Then put some Bob Dylan music for them to listen to. When one machine hates it and the other loves it, you have some real thinking going on. DELIO DESTRO Sao Paulo, Brazil Via E-mail...