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It's been 15 years since IBM's Deep Blue recorded its famous May 11th 1997 victory over world champion chess player Garry Kasparov -- a landmark in artificial intelligence. Designed by Big Blue as a way of understanding high-power parallel processing, the "brute force" system could examine 200 million chess positions every second, beating the grandmaster 3.5-2.5 after losing 4-2 the previous year. It went on to help develop drug treatments, analyze risk and aid data miners before being replaced with Blue Gene and, more recently, Watson -- which recorded a famous series of victories on Jeopardy! in 2011. If you'd like to know more, we've got a video with one of the computer's fathers: Dr. Murray Campbell and a comparison on how the three supercomputers stack up after the break.

As for Garry Kasparov? The loss didn't ruin his career, he went on to win every single Chess trophy conceived, retired, wrote some books and went into politics. As you do.

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IBM celebrates the 15th anniversary of Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 May 2012 13:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>15th Anniversary15thAnniversaryAIAnniversaryArtificial IntelligenceArtificialIntelligenceBirthdayChessChess ComputerChessComputerDeep BlueDeepBlueDr. Murray CampbellDr.MurrayCampbellGarry KasparovGarryKasparovIBMIntelligenceKasparovKasparov v Deep BlueKasparovVDeepBlueMurray CampbellMurrayCampbellTuringTuring TestTuringTestVictoryFri, 11 May 2012 13:24:00 EST<![CDATA[Google reCAPTCHAs now featuring Street View addresses, 221b Baker St. to get even more famous]]>http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/30/google-recaptchas-now-featuring-street-view-addresses-221b-bake/http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/30/google-recaptchas-now-featuring-street-view-addresses-221b-bake/http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/30/google-recaptchas-now-featuring-street-view-addresses-221b-bake/#comments ImageIf you've enjoyed decrypting the often frustratingly skewed (and occasionally humorously juxtaposed) reCAPTCHAs, you might be a bit sad to learn that Google is mixing things up with some rather more boring numerals. The combinations of two words are typically used as part of a registration form to ensure the registrant is, indeed, human. Google is now replacing one of the words in some of its reCAPTCHA forms with photos gleaned from Street View service. Google says it uses these numbers internally to improve the accuracy of Street View and that pulling them into reCAPTCHAs is part of an "experiment" to "determine if using imagery might also be an effective way to further refine our tools for fighting machine and bot-related abuse online."

In other words, Google's bots are already capable of decoding these numbers, which makes this all sound like a bit of a challenge to the rest of the OCR-loving coders in the world. Any takers?

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Google reCAPTCHAs now featuring Street View addresses, 221b Baker St. to get even more famous originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Earlier this week, Elbot made a fairly impressive showing (comparatively speaking, at least) when fooling three judges into thinking it was human; had it fooled one more on the dozen deep panel, it would have successful passed the famed Turing test. Auntie Beeb now has a report on what exactly Elbot said when asked a litany of questions away from the competition, and there's also a video with the related experts dissecting its performance. To be totally honest, its responses weren't too far from being completely passable as ones from a tired, potentially inebriated Earthling (in our humble opinion), but we'll leave the final determination to you. Touch the read link for a one-on-one with ones and zeros.

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A closer look at Elbot's Turing test conversation originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While some folks are considering taking the Turing test one step further and applying it to military robots, a group of researchers in the UK led by none other than would-be cyborg Kevin Warwick are doing their best to keep things as Turing intended and simply trying to fool some humans into thinking that the robot they're taking to is actually a person. Fortunately for us on the human side of the equation, they weren't quite successful, though one "robot" known as Elbot did get relatively close to the goal, fooling 25% of its human interrogators, which is just 5% off the mark set by Alan Turing. Each of the four other "artificial conversational entities" also managed to fool at least one of their questioners, though they eventually showed their true colors with random answers like "soup" when pressed as to what their job was.

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New round of Turing test fails to crown a winner originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not that we're experts on the matter or anything, but if barrister and engineer Chris Elliot knows a thing or two about legal issues, a kind of "military Turing test" could be the key to legally deploying autonomous systems in battle. As it stands, "weapons intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between civilian and military targets are illegal" -- at least according to Mr. Elliot -- but by testing an intelligent war machine's ability to hone in on legitimate targets and brush off friendlies, all that could change. Of course, actually administering the test still remains a mystery, but considering that remotely controlled armed bots are currently being used in Iraq, we reckon someone's already figuring out a solution to said dilemma.

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Military Turing test to make autonomous war robots legal? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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