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Ironically I had a very smart and otherwise reasonable math professor who, shortly after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, said in class that chess was no longer inte
by ihaveajob 7mo ago
Ironically I had a very smart and otherwise reasonable math professor who, shortly after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, said in class that chess was no longer interesting.
- hypfer 7mo agoI mean I would too be concerned if such a major event _wouldn't_ make people question their assumptions/beliefs/ideas/visions. If you have no reaction at all, you probably weren't paying attention. Eventually though, people _should_ recover and return after having processed the changes. So maybe the professor was still recovering at the time?
- ihaveajob 7mo agoIt's possible. At that time people were talking about Go as the next frontier (that didn't last long). IMO, the game is the same, and for 99.9999% of folks who ever play it, whether a computer can beat the best human is irrelevant in how fun it is to play.
- FpUser 7mo agoIn that sense running competition is no longer interesting since I can jut ride in the car