Artificial Intelligence / Unit 3 AI 0157 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Deep Blue: Judgment Written
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The idea
Deep Blue beat the world chess champion with massive search plus an evaluation function crafted by people — and no learning anywhere in the machine.
In practice
By its maker's account: thirty-two processors, two hundred million positions per second, evaluation sharpened by hand between the 1996 and 1997 matches.
Where people slip
Industrial scale did not change the machinery's kind — striped-tree search with a written judge.
Your place on the trail
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