Why would IBM spend millions of dollars and five years building the worlds most powerful chess playing computer?
Massively parallel, special purpose computing like that found in Deep Blue could certainly be of great use to people if applied to finance, medicine, education, etc. Imagine an evaluative capability like Deep Blue’s which could help an investor manage a portfolio, a huge retailer manage inventory, or a government deploy resources. These types of things justify the spending behind Deep Blue. Chess and Kasparov, are merely ways of benchmarking progress. The chess problem has fascinated computer scientists since the 1950s. In the early days of digital science, people like Claude Shannon and Alan Turing laid the groundwork for all subsequent work in developing machines that “think”. Chess requires a combination of math and pattern recognition, along with some less tangible things like intuition. It is in the balance of tangibles and intangibles where the potential for breakthrough lies. To build a machine that can solve difficult problems would be a boon to mankind. We would be able to rel
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