Nadav Har'El wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 14, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "Re: [off topic] A new project
>- automatic translation":
>
>
>This is getting wildly off-topic, but...
>
>
but interesting.
>but unlike a novice, he also does some "patern
>recognition" on each of the resulting boards, and instantly (without
>sequential "computation") recognizes situations which are good, or bad, for
>him. This final recognition is the part of their thought-process that
>chess-players can't really explain, and is often called "intuition".
>
>Kurzweil argues that a chess-playing program could act similarly - walk the
>the (fantasically huge) tree of possible moves and counter-moves, sequentially,
>and at every junction apply a neural network that recognizes "good boards",
>and prune the tree at that junction if the neural network decides to that
>this move is not worth it.
>
>
In other words, this is a case where a human programmer has to analyze
the problem, decide on a solution path, decide where, if at all, to
apply neural networks, and then program the whole thing.
I agree that this may produce a well playing chess program. I refuse to
call it "artificial intelligence". I have nothing against neural
networks as a programming tool (aside from the fact that they are, in my
humble opinion, too complex for casual use). I just don't like the
thought that says "just throw a neural network at it and everything will
be ok given enough training data and time".
Shachar
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