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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The defeat of Russian chess great Garry Kasparov by IBM's Deep Blue computer was seen by some as a breakthrough in the development of "thinking" machines. But Deep Blue, dosen't come even close to demonstrating humanlike thinking. Indeed, many computer scientists say that a machine that immitates human thought is centuries away, or perhaps not even possible at all. Others argue that increases in computing power in recent years and improved understanding of the human mind will lead to thinking machines sometime soon. Robots, "expert systems" and other developments that have resulted fromartificial intelligence research are being used in more and more real-world applications by companies ranging from General Motors to American Express.
Media hype had set the six-game, nine-day match as a perfect "man vs. machine" confrontation." In the end, Kasparov proved no match for an opponent able to calculate 200 million moves per second without tiring. Deep Blue's victory didn't mark by any means the beginning of man's domination by thinking machines. It rather did the opposite, it revealed the inherent limitations of today's computers. While Deep Blue had extraordinary calculating ability, it still depended on human chess experts to program it.
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