What did the most famous chess match of the twentieth century tell us about the ability of machines to think?
The cognitive psychologists compared the computer machinery the human brain functioning. This resulted in questioning, whether the computers are really able to think, or whether their intelligence is similar to the human’s intelligence. In the 17th century, automata were developed that simulated human speech and movements.
The author of the book “Giant Brain”, in the year 1949, declared that the machines have the capability to think; since, they could conclude, calculate and choose and was able to perform the operations, based on reasoning. Later, the computer genius, Turing, developed a test known as Turing test to analyze whether the computers have the capability of thinking.
In this test, it was tested whether the computers are communicating with the person or with other machines. However, these tests did not reveal the actual process. This means that the computers were seemed to be thinking, but actually they were not. In 1997, a chess match was organized. Deep Blue computer was manufactured by IBM (international business machines).
He played with the then champion, named Garry Kasparov. Kasparov lost the match and gave up the game forever. Deep Blue had the capability to operate at least 50 billion moves within three minutes. In 2003, Kasparov played against Deep junior and said that he was representing the human race.
Though, he agreed on a 3-3 tie, he had a hard time in playing the game. According to many scientists, the computer was not really thinking, but was it was presented as if, it has been thinking. Hence, the artificial intelligence yet remains to be tested and is the area of intense research.