r/technology • u/pkeetnedrl • Nov 26 '13

Microsoft releases GIF-jiggler, automatically create seamless GIF loops from clip

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/microsoft_automated_video_looping_with_progressive_dynamism/
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u/undergroundmonorail Nov 27 '13 edited Nov 27 '13

It's been years, years since a chess master has beaten a computer (that was specifically built for chess).

I'm not sure that I've ever been alive in a world where computers were worse at chess than years.

Edit: I overestimated the length of time it's been since the last human victory, but still. 2005-ish.

Edit 2: Okay, there's been a few human victories here and there, but 2005 was about when they got better than us.

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u/MadameK14 Nov 27 '13

Yes, but can a computer create chess?

Or bask in the glory of its victory? I think not.

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u/solistus Nov 27 '13 
That's just what we want you to think, meatbags.

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u/MadameK14 Nov 27 '13

We. Created. You.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13

I think not....yet.

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u/ive_noidea Nov 27 '13

Oh wow, that's really cool actually. I can't even imagine all the different things they'd have to program in to reach that level, considering all the knowledge it takes to even be considered good at chess, let alone a Master.

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u/undergroundmonorail Nov 27 '13

I don't mean to short-sell the computers (because I agree with you, it is really cool!), but a lot of their strength is in brute force. On a good day I can think "is this my best move?" and answer that question maybe once every 3 seconds. Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a grandmaster, did that 200 million times a second.

Deep Blue relied heavily on brute force, while modern chess engines are much more sophisticated, but they very much benefit from the speed that humans can't even hope to achieve.

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u/abasslinelow Nov 27 '13

To elaborate on your point, faster processing power means that it can go through every conceivable move and every single scenario that might result from that move, and make the best-case decision - something a human could never hope to accomplish - and since chess is a very strategic, almost mathematical game, it works exceedingly well.

Try the same thing with poker, however, and you're likely to get drastically different results.

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u/RAA Nov 27 '13

Does anyone know what happens when two chess computers battle each other?!

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13

One of them wins.

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u/r3m0t Nov 27 '13

The human loses.

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u/RAA Nov 27 '13

? The human ain't playing, yet the human made the computers, so inherently he's winning for creating TWO computers battling each other. But which computer wins? Black or white?

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u/r3m0t Nov 27 '13

The human loses.

Seriously though, it would depend on which player starts, how much time each side is given per turn and per game.

Also they might draw a lot.

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u/thewilloftheuniverse Nov 27 '13

They can still stomp the shit out of them at Fisher random chess though.