Checkmate to plumber's mate?
Asserts that people won't lose their jobs to computers unless they hold jobs which involve repeated application processes on a computer terminal. IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer's loss to world champion Garry Kasparov; Many occupations unable to be reduced to a simple set or rules such as chess; Dist...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 338; no. 7953; p. 17 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
2/17/1996
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | Asserts that people won't lose their jobs to computers unless they hold jobs which involve repeated application processes on a computer terminal. IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer's loss to world champion Garry Kasparov; Many occupations unable to be reduced to a simple set or rules such as chess; Distinctions between human thought and computer `thought.' |
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