MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2010 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-034F10 Instructor: Patrick Winston In this lecture, we consider strategies ...
========== SPEAKER 1: It was about 1963
when a noted philosopher here at MIT, named Hubert Dreyfus-- Hubert Dreyfus wrote a paper in
about 1963 in which he had a heading titled, "Computers
Can't Play Chess." Of course, he was subsequently invited
over to the artificial intelligence laboratory
to play the Greenblatt chess machine. And, of course, he lost. Whereupon Seymour Pavitt wrote
a rebuttal to Dreyfus' famous paper, which had a subject
heading, "Dreyfus Can't Play Chess Either." But in a strange sense, Dreyfus
might have been right and would have been right if he
were to have said computers can't play chess the way
humans play chess yet. In any case, around about 1968
a chess master named David Levy bet noted founder of
artificial intellige...