Does anyone else find this as depressing as I do?

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<p>“Computer program can’t lose at checkers:”
<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_hi_te/solving_checkers[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_hi_te/solving_checkers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Checkers? roflmao!</p>

<p>The simpler a game gets, the better a computer can play it. Let’s take Checkers, Chess, and Go.</p>

<p>In level of complexity and thinking, Checkers is the simplest while Go is most complex. So it’s not too surprising that the top computers nowadays can beat everyone at Checkers, most people save chessmasters and experts at Chess, and only a handful of amateurs/beginners at Go.</p>

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<p>Connect Four has been solved. The first player can always force a win. :cool:</p>

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<p>^ Cool. I will conquer.</p>

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<p>Tic Tac Toe is the same way. I was almost proud when I figured out how to prevent losing in 3rd grade.</p>

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<p>i don’t think its depressing, it means humans are really smart if they were able to create an unbeatable machine</p>

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<p>No, even the best chess grand masters and top human players lose to the top computers these days. The era of human domination of chess is over. Gary Kasparov, the greatest chess player who every lived, was the last man standing, and he got taken down by a computer several years ago.</p>

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<p>Fkn Big Blue.</p>

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<p>I’m going to drive up to Edmonton and beat Chinook at Checkers, as I have devised a way to beat unbeatable computer programs.</p>