Researchers are creating systems which can mimic human thought, understand speech, beat the best human chess player, and countless other feats never before possible. ... The computer's memory was made up of pretty much all symbols. ... Any modern computer is essentially a modified Turing machine. ... The best-known example of this form of AI is Deep Blue II, the IBM supercomputer that beat World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. ... However, although it is possible for scientists to create a computer whose computational abilities exceed those of the human brain, they have yet to crea...

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