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To: bentway who wrote (313895)	12/4/2006 6:11:25 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573116

"The ability to predict weather and other such problems will succumb soon enough." They do a pretty darn good job now. Next day forecast is almost perfect, and longer term forecasts are usually close.

To: bentway who wrote (313895)	12/4/2006 7:34:52 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573116

JCP, > As a tournament chessplayer, I've always known that computers would be beating the very best humans eventually, but it's just come to pass recently. Several years ago, I read an article entitled, "Actually, Chess Is Easy." It lays out many other complex gaming problems that is much tougher to accomplish than chess. It's been a long time since I played a turn-based strategy game like Civilization, but I always hated it when the computer players are given huge unfair resource advantages. It's like giving the computer player all queens in chess. I want to be outmaneuvered, not smothered. > The ability to predict weather and other such problems will succumb soon enough. At least in games, all of the rules are known. Even in the game "SimEarth." ;-) Tenchusatsu

To: bentway who wrote (313895)	12/4/2006 10:16:17 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573116

Chess is quite different from weather with clear and incorruptible rules. If correctly played either white or black would always win. Or possibly it would always end with a draw. Weather is a bad case for chaos theory with no finite rules. The former is perfect for a powerful computer perfectly programmed but the latter is not. As you say, sooner or later - looks like fairly soon by now - the computer always will play the perfect game and mostly beat the - oh so human - humans. So you guys finally got doping controls introduced? You know they have that in shooting. No alcohol allowed in the blood! Taro