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...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Economist Vol. 338; no. 7953; p. 17
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 2/17/1996
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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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.'