Computer Chess Page #5

(Door is unlocked)

- Hello?

- Hi.

(Whispers) Hi.

I'm sorry, um...

I'm sorry...

I'm Peter from the Caltech team,

and I was wondering -

do you have STASIA here?

- Yeah.

- OK, um...

Could I run an experiment

with the two of them, if that's OK?

- OK.

- Um...

Thanks.

Thank you.

Can you help me come get it?

(Chuckles) Yeah,

let me go get my glasses.

OK.

(Electronic whirring)

Pawn A6 to A5.

Knight B3 to D2.

It's still retreating...

Hold on, sorry.

Erm, can you try something else?

Can you try just making a move

on your own?

Don't use STASIA.

Can you do your own move?

What?

Just... Just do...

Just do your own move.

On your own.

OK.

Knight, C6 to...

Just... Well, hold on.

Just think about it a little bit,

and then go.

Just give it a thought.

Pawn A5 to A4.

Pawn G2 to G4.

Now you're waking up.

Pawn E6 to E5.

Pawn F4 to F5.

Did you see that?

- It's a weird strategy.

- It's...

Yeah.

Yeah, it's revising its strategy.

Why do you think it's doing that?

(Creaking, glass shattering)

Excuse me.

Sir?

Sir, you can't sleep there.

Sir?

It actually turns out a couple didn't check in

for the other conference,

and I have a room available.

- Would you like it?

- I would.

- How would you like to pay?

- Tomorrow morning?

Great, here's room 302.

Just walk down the hallway,

take the elevator to the third floor

and take a right.

(Cats miaowing)

(Sneezes)

(Laughing) Sounds good.

Good morning.

I don't know

if that's ever happened to you...

(Man) You're talking about the dream?

(Woman)

We had the same dream last night.

At least I think

we had the same dream last night.

(Man) The more we talked about it,

the more it sounds like we had...

- because I felt like she was there.

- Who is that?

Whoa!

Come here, honey.

(Clears throat) Good morning.

(Group)

Good morning.

Can I help you people with something?

(Keneiloe) Yes, absolutely.

What can I help you with?

(Peter) Excuse me, Dr Schoesser?

Can I join you?

Oh, OK, yeah.

How are you doing?

What's going on?

Um...

Well, I really wanted

to talk to you this morning.

Um...

I had a theory that...

I don't think that TSAR

wants to play against computers.

And why do you say that?

Well, because last night

after we were working on it,

I took it to an MIT student's room

and I had their programme STASIA

play against ours.

Wait, you wheeled it over there?

I had a student help me, yes.

OK.

And what did you do

with the MIT team?

I just had one student play their programme

against ours, that's all.

OK.

I just wanted to see another game, and...

The idea I had is, I just had...

at first the two programmes

playing against each other,

and then I had that same student

start generating their own moves, and...

TSAR at first was doing very poor,

just like it had,

and when it started playing

against the student,

it was much more aggressive

and it played...

it performed better.

I... OK, er...

But this was just

part of a game last night, right?

How many moves?

Er... twelve or so.

OK, I...

We just didn't have enough time.

I appreciate your desire

to figure this stuff out,

but I just don't think

that that's enough data

to support this theory

about computers versus human opponents.

I would like

to run some more tests as well.

This is just the start of it.

This is just a proposition I have.

It's just such an outlandish theory...

I don't... I don't...

It just doesn't make sense, and, er...

Well...

No...

It's... It's still...

There's still

some significant evidence for it...

I know it's a bit unconventional,

but, um...

There's some others -

like Nikola Tesla...

Who has been talking to you

about Tesla?

Just some person who mentioned him.

I do not think that Tesla is a good role model

for your academic career.

That is the path to madness.

Do you know about confirmation bias?

Where you're blind to all the things

that will refute your theory

and you're fixating

on the things that support it?

This is a human trait,

and it's an issue that I've dealt with

in my own work in the past.

TSAR is a very complicated machine,

it has many components,

many connections between them.

And right now, some of those connections

are going a little wrong.

Our brains...

even more complex.

And I think that

with this theory of yours,

you're making

a few wrong connections.

And I'm worried that

if you're fixating on this

the balance of wrong connections

to right connections could shift,

and at that point

we've lost our sanity.

(Baby squeals)

(Chanting) Dave!

(Shouts) Dave!

Dave!

Dave!

(Shouts) Monica!

Look deep within me

to find what is inside you.

Go.

Break through.

Come through,

Mr Michael Papageorge.

Fight through!

(Thomas) He's crowning -

watch his shoulders!

Rotate his shoulders.

(Keneiloe) Keep fighting,

Mr Papageorge.

Squeeze through...

(sighing)

I'm now going to cut your umbilical cord.

(Screams)

Breathe, Mr Papageorge.

(Screams)

Breathe, Mr Papageorge!

(Screams)

(Whispers) There you go.

Now, what is your name?

Michael Papageorge!

Yes.

Welcome, Mr Papageorge.

Group, let us greet

the new Michael Papageorge.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Hey, it is a good morning.

- Welcome.

- Welcome.

Black, which was winning the game,

has now gone off on this tangent,

chasing after that white king.

Can you move your arm please?

Thank you.

Chasing the king,

trying to get it up, up on the board,

and in the process

the black bishop is trapped.

There's really nothing much for it to do.

The white king,

which looks naked sitting there,

is actually in a very nice position.

CHECKERS has moved its rook up -

I'm expecting ALLIANCE

to defend this pawn with its knight.

- That was interesting.

- Yeah.

(Papageorge)

How's your room?

Yeah, it's nice.

Same as any of 'em, I suppose.

The mini-bar is half-empty.

That's a bit of a surprise move.

CHECKERS happily takes the pawn.

But, let me tell you -

that black king is in deep trouble.

(Papageorge) Do you have

a Jacuzzi tub in your room?

- Mm-mm.

- Jacuzzi tubs are nice.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

You got one of those?

Yeah - they ran out of rooms so they had

to give me the honeymoon suite.

Mmm, nice.

Yeah, it is nice.

Just a matter of luck, I suppose.

Deeply, deeply in trouble.

Let's see what CHECKERS

comes up with.

So, Les...

When did the tables turn?

According to my evaluation,

ten moves ago I was up plus five.

But now it looks like I'm busted.

Do you have an evaluation transcript

over there?

I just get the moves on my print-out.

Well, there's got to be a record

of that evaluation somewhere.

Could I possibly get a transcript

of that after the game?

I can talk to the powers that be.

That would be great

if you could talk to the "powers that be" -

whoever they may be.

Put in a word for me, I could really use a copy

of that evaluation transcript.

I'll ask.

I'll ask for sure.

Thanks, Les.

Lester.

- Put in a word for me.

- I will. Will do.

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