He predicted that a computer will defeat a Chess champion around 1998, and he was darn close as computer beat him by 1997. ... There are only set number of moves in chess, and if you have a computer foresee all the moves ahead, then it will win. If a computer got powerful enough, then it will beat a human chess player, and it did. ... He predicts that by year 2009, we will be carrying at least dozen computers in our body. ... By year 2019, computers will be largely invisible and embedded everywhere. ...

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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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And computers have gotten to the point when they can outthink humans, remember Deep Blue beating the chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. ... So if computers were to get smarter than us in every way, what is there to stop them taking over. ... So maybe The Matrix and The Terminator are warning us of giving computers any power. In War Games we are given the fear that a person could access the worlds nuclear weapons by a computer. In The Terminator, it is the computers that fire the nukes, taking over humanity. ...

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While the two are playing chess, Jimmy ask if they can use a real chess set, "The old kind. ... The two sit behind a computer for hours playing games like Exinctathon, where they simulate the extinction of whole species with bio-forms. ...

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