Jeremy Good wrote on Tue, Jan 9, 2007 01:27 AM UTC:
I don't think computers truly test the strength of artificial intelligence through application to FIDE since computers reflect the accumulated strength of years of human scholarship and practice. A sounder test would be an exotic chess variant that is relatively unexplored. For example: Could the most advanced computer beat a panel of expert chess variant specialists at microorganism chess?
Another thought: Each chess variant is itself an artificial intelligence program. When we play them, we are merely glimpsing the inner workings of the machines we have built.
I don't think computers truly test the strength of artificial intelligence through application to FIDE since computers reflect the accumulated strength of years of human scholarship and practice. A sounder test would be an exotic chess variant that is relatively unexplored. For example: Could the most advanced computer beat a panel of expert chess variant specialists at microorganism chess?
Another thought: Each chess variant is itself an artificial intelligence program. When we play them, we are merely glimpsing the inner workings of the machines we have built.