In reponse to feedback, criticism, and mocking about his book, "The End of Science", John Horgan wrote an excellent article for IEEE "Computer" entitled "The End of Science Revisited." He makes some excellent points in a hysterical way! I would say this is a "must read". Grab the PDF (it's pretty and easy to read), or if you prefer, check out the HTML version. It's a short read, so just go for it.
Without spoiling too much, I would have to say this is my favorite quote:
"Chess, with its straightforward rules and tiny, Cartesian playing field, is a game tailor-made for computers. Deep Blue, whose five human handlers included the best chess programmers in the world, was a prodigiously powerful machine, capable of examining hundreds of millions of positions each second. If this silicon monster had to strain so mightily to beat a mere human at chess, what hope is there that AI engineers will ever create HAL, the lip-reading killer in the film 2001?"
Posted by enigma at February 17, 2004 03:33 PM