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Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage

Posted March 31, 2010 9:30 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

Which are smarter, humans or machines? Back in 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer struck a blow for bots when it beat Garry Kasparov at chess. Deep Blue won because computers can perform endless lightning-fast calculations; humans can't. It basically prevailed through brute force, examining millions of possible moves to find the best ones.

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Re: Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage

03/31/2010 3:32 PM

Thompson asks: what kind of cyborg do you want to be?

The cyborg he describes is not physically integrated into the human body. This is the sort of cyborg I would like to be: one who turns off the machine after the tournament and goes out for a beer, leaving the machine behind, just like the two guys in the story (rah! go guys!).

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