Does Deep Blue use Artificial Intelligence?¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Korf, R.E.^{; *}

Affiliations: Los Angeles, USA

Note: [1] This is an extended and amended version of Korf’s (1997) contribution to Proceedings of the AAAI-97 Workshop on Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: The Significance for Artificial Intelligence (ed. R. Morris), pp. 1–2.

Note: [*] Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Ca. 90095, USA. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: When Deep Blue played Garry Kasparov in February 1996 and May 1997, the extensive IBM Web pages devoted to the site claimed that Deep Blue did not use artificial intelligence (AI). I argue that this claim is (1) inaccurate, (2) representative of a wide-spread phenomenon in the field, and (3) ultimately harmful to AI.

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1997-20404

Journal: ICGA Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 243-245, 1997