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I recalled 15 years ago when the greatest chess player ever, Garry Kasparov, lost in a rematch against Deep Blue, then IBM's smartest computer ever to take on man. Being a chess enthusiast, I followed the match with gusto to see how a creation of man which can process 100 million chess positions a second beat its creator who can at best garner 3 positions per second. Of course Deep Blue, like Watson, does not have emotions or psyches to interpret nonverbal cues, experience nervousness, and feel the high of game time.
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Humans, in their never-ending search for higher-order technology, always have to face the question of "technological singularity" or superintelligence, or even AI. It poses the issue of someday creating (rather inadvertently) a computer far smarter than them, which possibly can even threaten their existence--of science fiction lore. This also has policy implications in ICT, like whether the end of having more efficient universal interconnection can be justified by the means of a double-edged technology which may fall on evil hands and be used for criminal purposes, making it ruthlessly efficient.
In sum, man has created the machine which may become a problem spelling his very demise; now man must also provide the solution to the problem that he made in the first place. But, can he do it? Well he sure must. Meanwhile, let's keep our fingers crossed on who will win the Jeopardy! match, as the invention rakes in the cash to the chagrin of the inventor.
Richmund C. Sta. Lucia, Post #13
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