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...Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, call Deeper Blue: the second generation of the original Deep Blue, the infamous chess program that one year ago threw a stunning uppercut to human self-esteem by winning the first game of its six-game match against world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov, of course, went on to score three victories and two draws to win the match and save mankind; the 33-year-old Russian isn't considered the best player in history for nothing...
...butt. From F4 onward, its inexorable kingside march swallows one pawn after another, and Deep Blue resigns 18 moves later. The room erupts in applause. The same thought is on everyone's mind: the new program is better. The new program is a lot better. We're gonna crush Kasparov like...
...question isn't nervous, though--at least not yet. "I'll have to play well and have a couple of surprises, but I feel that my chances are still superior," Kasparov says over lunch in Manhattan the next day to an audience of six, including Tan. "I know quite a lot, and I'll control my temper and my psychology...
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...
...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...