Fry: IBM Deep Blue introduced deliberate delays to simulate human thinking
Hannah Fry · #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms · Jul 7, 2020 · at 39:50
Mathematician Hannah Fry discusses psychological design elements IBM programmed into Deep Blue during its 1997 chess match against Garry Kasparov.
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“The IBM team deliberately coded their machine so that the way that it worked for you would sort of search for solutions. And depending on how long that search would take, it would be how quickly the answer came back, but they deliberately coded it so that sometimes in certain positions, the machine might find the answer very quickly, but rather than just come back with the response, They added in a random amount of time where it looked like the machine was just ticking over, thinking very carefully about what the move was, when in reality it was just sitting there in a sort of holding pattern.”
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