05-30-2021, 02:25 PM
The Cuban grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca predicted in the 1920s that chess would be dead in no time, and advocated for an expanded board, with new pieces.
In the early 20th century, Max Born told a group of physicists visiting Gottingen than 'physics would be over in a few years' (I got this from A Brief History of Time)
Neither Capablanca nor Born were correct, though Capablanca was closer to the truth.
Today, physics is no closer to being 'solved', given the onion like nature of reality, but chess is indeed closer to being 'solved'. At least, we have computers that play better than the best humans.
Coming to poetry - it is, after all, a craft following rules of intuition. Rules of intuition can be mocked through machine learning. It should be possible to feed a computer the best poems of the past 50 years and see it spit out a poem in the style of John Ashberry.
Or maybe it has happened already.
In the early 20th century, Max Born told a group of physicists visiting Gottingen than 'physics would be over in a few years' (I got this from A Brief History of Time)
Neither Capablanca nor Born were correct, though Capablanca was closer to the truth.
Today, physics is no closer to being 'solved', given the onion like nature of reality, but chess is indeed closer to being 'solved'. At least, we have computers that play better than the best humans.
Coming to poetry - it is, after all, a craft following rules of intuition. Rules of intuition can be mocked through machine learning. It should be possible to feed a computer the best poems of the past 50 years and see it spit out a poem in the style of John Ashberry.
Or maybe it has happened already.