Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Scraps.
Categories: Words, Games, Old Posts.
The idea that "chess is relatively easy" is very recent, and very nearly postdates the crucial match. Just ten years ago, it wasn't difficult to find folks in the AI debate asserting that computers would never beat the best humans at chess.
We don't have a problem with machines being stronger or faster than us, but the idea that we can program computers to exceed our mental processes is deeply disturbing. Yet the notion that this is "impossible" is essentially mystical: it insists that there is more to human thought than the physical workings of the brain, and hence can never be artificially created.
When computers start making original contributions to philosophy, there will be folks maintaining that philosophy is relatively easy.
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