Abstract:
This first symposium was about humans versus computers as chess players and as Go players (at that time, world chess champion Garry Kasparov had just been defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue system, a very provocative result).
Description:
In the fall of 1997, Indiana University cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, in his role as Visiting Professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer-Aided Research in the Humanities (CCARH), organized a series of five public symposia centered on the burning question “Are Computers Approaching Human-Level Creativity?” The first symposium was about humans versus computers as chess players and as Go players (at that time, world chess champion Garry Kasparov had just been defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue system, a very provocative result). To view part 2 click on the link below.
