[ExI] Deep Blue isn't smart enough to understand checkmate? was Re: Unfrendly AI is a mistaken idea.

[Randall Randall]

On May 28, 2007, at 3:26 PM, John K Clark wrote:

> Russell Wallace Wrote:
>
>> I put it to you that you know intelligent behavior is possible  
>> without
>> emotion
>
> I know nothing of the sort!
>
>> Deep Blue didn't feel anything when it defeated Kasparov
>
> Deep Blue wasn't intelligent enough to even know it had defeated  
> Kasparov,

That seems somewhat unlikely, but I suppose you could
program a chess-player without reference to "checkmate",
as long as the opponent stops playing when checkmated.


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