Fighting mind, pitted people with machines

The big match between the two former champions and the supercomputer with the IBM "Watson" nickname in the Jeopardy Knowledge Test program on the evening of February 14th is the latest in a series of mass competitions and machines ever.

People and machines had some direct opportunities to compete with each other.Photo: Getty Images.

From checkers and chess to football and video games, the desire to win is always strong in humans, including those who program and design machines. Matthew Ginsberg, chief executive of technology company Matthew Ginsberg, developed artificial intelligence for industrial purposes, remarked: "Computers are extremely good at arithmetic, just like securing electrical directories. "The voice is arranged in alphabetical order. We - people are extremely good at anticipating that we want to attack something or to run, good at matching patterns."

Although Watson's computer won a resounding victory over half a month ago, an expert said that computers and robots should only be considered gifts, not human rivals.

Let's discover Discovery with the top 5 glove matches between people and machines:

IBM Watson computer - champions of Jeopardy (2011)

Computer Watson defeated two former Jeopardy quiz winners in the match
fight on February 14.Photo: Getty Images.

Computer Watson took up the challenge with two former champion Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter of the Jeopardy quiz program with the combined power of 90 servers, 2,880 Power7 processors and 16 terabytes of ram. Developed by IBM researchers and collaborative universities since 2005, Watson computers use large-scale parallel processing to find answers with hundreds of CPUs working together. at.

Watson's computer, which was named after the founder of IBM, started competing in 2008's Jeopardy program and defeated rivals in the 2010 program. It is also an introduction to the show. IBM's new DeepQA software, which is installed to help it answer millions of trivial questions.

However, the Watson machine still " an Achilles heel ". That is, if the Jeopardy program has a word question, Watson will not answer.

IBM Big Blue Computer - Garry Kasparov (1996)

Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov also lost to the Big Blue computer
.Photo: Corbis.

As Watson's predecessor, the Big Blue computer defeated the Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov after Kasparov accepted to join the first match against the machine in 1996. The chess champion who refused to accept failed easily and accused IBM of cheating with the machine. However, in the end, programmers who won the $ 100,000 Fredkin prize for computers could beat a reigning world champion.

Garry Kasparov officially withdrew from chess tournaments in 2005. He joined Russian politics and ran for president in 2008.

Chinook computer - international chess chess championship (1994)

Chinook computer won the 1994 international chess checker title after rival Marion
Tinsley withdrew for health reasons.Photo: Corbis.

Chinook was the first computer program to defeat people to win a world title. However, it is not an easy match.

The Chinook program was Jonathan Schaeffer's 1989 invention of the University of Alberta (Canada). In 1990, Chinook won the right to compete for the world title. The reigning world champion, Marion Tinsley, has given up his title to protest when the chess conglomerates do not accept the legitimacy of a world-class competition for people. In the end, Chinook competed in the championship with Mr. Tinsley in 1992 and fought again in 1994. After playing for six draws in the second match, Tinsley withdrew for health and Chinook reasons. of course become a victorious character.

Robot - Brazil recruit (World Cup 2050)

Computer programmers hope to organize a soccer match between a team of robots
with a team in the World Cup in 2050. Photo: Corbis.

Each year, hundreds of programmers compete in the RoboCup-only robot soccer tournament. At this tournament, robots compete on standard-sized pitches with balls.

Manuela Velosa, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), said the ultimate goal is to have a team of robots join the World Cup in 2050. "We have a roadmap and is making progress, "Professor Velosa revealed.

An obstacle to the plan is the rules for a human-robot match. Professor Velosa added: "We can allow robots to mount cameras on top of their heads to control the entire yard or just look ahead like humans? Robots communicate wirelessly. Can we allow The robot talks wirelessly or forces them to shout loudly? All these problems we are studying, but we are preparing to one day be able to organize real contests. "

John Henry - steam-powered hammer (1970s)

Legendary character John Henry defeated a steam-powered machine hammer in one
double hammering competition.Photo: Corbis.

Americans have a legendary character named John Henry, an ordinary worker in the railroad industry in the West in the 1970s. It was in the mid-19th century, when the scientific and technological revolution began, the owners began using steam-powered machine hammers to process steel and thought about cutting staff.

To prove that he and his colleagues deserved to keep their jobs, John Henry 'challenged' the cold steam machine in a double hammering competition. Henry won the machine and entered the legend, but he died of exhaustion after an unequal battle with the hammer still clutched in his hand.