
Ep. 1085: The Filing System with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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How to Make a Machine to Play Chess
If you could define exactly a definite procedure, tell somebody exactly how to think, which by the way is what the members of my workshop have expected me to do for them. If I could do that, I could do it for a computer and I wouldn't have to, you know, they could get the computer to think. Nobody knows what we do or how to define a series of steps which correspond to something abstract like thinking. But nevertheless, we could make machines which play chess, which was supposed to be something that takes thinking. And what exactly do they do? What definite procedure could you make with a big file system, very fast operated gadget by which the thing could be used to
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