See Kasparov's comment on this in a London Financial Times interview, November 7, 2003, part of which is reprinted below:I guess this has long been expected. The question is should this worry us humans? Will there come a time when machines are the masters, and humans the slaves? (a la Matrix?)PManahttp://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/22/15209/8213 Over the last few years the rated strength of chess computers has been creeping upwards and is at the verge of overtaking Garry Kasparov, the top-rated human. Jeff Sonas has written an article for ChessBase News detailing these statistical results from the SSDF. They show computer program Shredder at 2812, a mere 19 points away from Kasparov's 2831 FIDE rating. By linear extrapolation the programs seem to be getting stronger at a rate of about 50 points a year so if the trend holds computers will pass Kasparov sometime this year.-- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
'From Tuesday in New York, Kasparov faces a great player who is himself a computer. In 1997 Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue. Fritz is better than Deep Blue. "Machines are making huge progress," says Kasparov patronisingly. Do humans retain any advantages? "Yeah, because humans are flexible. Machine, even the greatest, has one problem: it's inflexible. So if it's the king's safety on top, it will be the king's safety on top forever. In the long future I see the man versus machine experiment to be conducted in a very simple fashion. We play four, six games and if human player, the world champion, wins one game it's over. That's it: we are still superior. Because we're not there to test physical ability of human being. You could have family problem, you could have a bad weather, you can have a headache, you can have whatever. But I still think that for a few years to come we're able to win the whole match.'
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