Wow. I think Hofstadter's thoughts (from NYT, 1996) are so way, way off on this:Several cognitive scientists said Deep Blue's victory in the opening game of the recent match told more about chess than about intelligence."It was a watershed event, but it doesn't have to do with computers becoming int...
If this book had been written forty years earlier, it would have been a typical piece of hard science-fiction. In fact, there is an SF short story by Fritz Leiber, The Sixty-Four Square Madhouse, which is quite similar. Like everyone else, I knew the bare bones of the real life version. A group of s...
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