1. Artificial Intelligence
... Gary Kasparov and "walking" away with a rating of 3200 compared to Kasparov's rating of 2800 in 1992 Deep Blue and its team proved a lot of people wrong. As sophisticated as chess is, Deep Blue took this game and developed a strategy with precise calculations. In any one turn Deep Blue would do a 20 billion-move search and move accordingly. Deep Blue "reduced ... chess to a problem in pure computation rather than one of judgment and intuition." In the counter argument to functionalism it is easy to see that Deep Blue is not a "living entity" ... but a very well programmed computer. The...
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