<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Well, I think we are as close to agreement as we are going to get. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:42 PM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 3:17 PM William Flynn Wallace <</span><a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>If you're playing chess with a brilliant chess AI you won't be able to predict what its next move will be, if you could you'd be as good at chess at it is and you're not, but after it made <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">its</span> move you can easily see that it wasn't random and was in fact pretty damn smart. You can't predict what Stephen King's next novel will be but when it come out and <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">you read it</span> you can be pretty sure it was not made by a monkey banging on a keyboard. </font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I disagree strongly with all of that. What you can predict with a great deal of accuracy is the moves the AI won't make, as they would be stupid and self-defeating. </i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Intelligent or non-intelligent you can always predict something a system won't do but that's a long way from predicting what it will do. And besides, the the AI's chess move could look stupid to you at first, in fact it probably would and that's why you wouldn't make it yourself, only after several more moves do you understand that it wasn't a stupid move at all, it was brilliant.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></span></font><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>
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