{"id":31335,"date":"2011-02-24T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/much-like-how-computers-play-chess-reducing-the\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:11:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:11:47","slug":"much-like-how-computers-play-chess-reducing-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/much-like-how-computers-play-chess-reducing-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Much like how computers play chess, reducing the algorithm into \u201ccrunchable\u201d elements can simulate the way humans do things in the result even though the computer\u2019s method is entirely different. If the result\u2014the chess move, the Jeopardy answer\u2014is all that matters, it\u2019s a success. If how the result is achieved matters more, I\u2019m not so sure. For example, Deep Blue had no real impact on chess or science despite the hype surrounding its sporting achievement in defeating me. If Watson\u2019s skills can be translated into something useful, something groundbreaking, that is the test. If all it can do is beat humans on a game show Watson is just a passing entertainment akin to the wind-up automata of the 18th century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/02\/exclusive-garry-kasparov-on-ibms-watson\/71584\/\">Garry Kasparov<\/a>, the Russian chess champion who sparred with IBM\u2019s Deep Blue in 1997, ponders last week\u2019s Jeopardy! contest between IBM\u2019s Deep Blue and champions\u00a0Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/02\/exclusive-garry-kasparov-on-ibms-watson\/71584\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">theatlantic<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like how computers play chess, reducing the algorithm into \u201ccrunchable\u201d elements can simulate the way humans do things in the result even though the computer\u2019s method is entirely different. If the result\u2014the chess move, the Jeopardy answer\u2014is all that matters, it\u2019s a success. If how the result is achieved matters more, I\u2019m not so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-89p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}