Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have before us Pygmalion's Galatea or Frankenstein's monster...
...universe, we find that not even our minds are that special. And while our minds are still more able than any existing computer, that may change soon. Computers can already process information hundreds of times faster than we can because our brains are physically limited from achieving that speed. "Monster" may be too strong a word, but a computer that can beat Kasparov is very frightening...
PHILADELPHIA: Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is battling for his reputation against a computer he calls 'the monster'. Currently he is tied 1-1 against the worlds most potent chess computer, an IBM RS-6000SP named Deep Blue. In his first game, Kasparov tried a late game assault which might have rattled a human opponant, but Deep Blue remained unruffled and forced Kasparov to resign on move 37. In the second match yesterday, Kasparov offered Deep Blue short term advantages which weakened its overall position enough for him to force Deep Blue resignation on move 73 after five hours and forty...
...these allegations could possibly be true. But Hillary would still bear much of a resemblence to Tricky Dick. To be a monster truly in Nixon's image, she would also have to bomb the hell out of Hanoi next Christmas, using large bombers instead of strategic fighters to insure maximum civillian casualties. She would have to expose an almost inhuman lack of compassion by attempting to justify the slaughter of unarmed, non-violent students by the National Guard, as Nixon did after the Kent State massacre...
Welles had the star quality of some tribal monster-god. Ten pounds at birth, he just kept growing, especially the head, Churchillian even in youth. But he had more. Before Sinatra, Welles was the Voice: "softly thunderous," Irish actor Micheal Mac Liammoir called it, "like a regretful oboe." Intimate, intimidating, sonorous, it almost mooed with mellowness...