I'm not saying they are, but even when it did beat Kasparov, where was the proof, code we can run ourselves and see, witnesses, just basic accountability stuff that we can make us safely believe that these are not staged?
Does anyone know anything?
1. There were only a handful of players around during those matches who could hold a candle to Kasparov. A team of the top GMs could maybe topple him, but that would require a significant conspiracy by individuals with no clear incentive to hype-up computer chess.
2) It wasn't long until you could run open source code on your home PC that could crush Kasparov.
I suspect that much of the power of Watson comes from it's data sets and preprocessing, and that technically it wouldn't look nearly as impressive as Deep Mind's work. Open sourcing its core algorithms might not give any useful insights, especially if one lacks the data sets and a powerful enough custom-built machine.
I can't even assume we all agree winning against Kasparov is proof enough. Just for argument's sake, you can buy him out, convince him that this is an amazing PR for him as well - lose one game, be double famous for life, just as you can convince a boxer to lose a match. None of this tells me 100% that Watson is AI capable of winning a chess game in the 90s or hold an intellectual debate in 2018. Again, I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying burden of proof is bothering me. A good friend of mine who is a VP Cloud at IBM said when I asked last year "no one can explain Watson at ibm - it's a black box" I also wrote a few apps with tensorflow.
Kasparov, winning Go game, playing fortnite, sure.What they are suggesting here and with Sophie, without proof of any kind, is beyond me.
Is this possible?
If so, then call it Data Science or Push-button analysis.
Is this a reference that I’m not picking up on?
Deep blue beating Kasparov obviously wasn't staged because there was no human strong enough to beat Kasparov at chess. The jeopardy thing wasn't staged (but also wasn't necessarily that impressive). To this day you can download a chess engine greater than the strongest human for free online (stockfish).
This, however, is almost certainly a human-controlled PR-Stunt.
Asking for evidence is fine, but let's not conflate this with something real like chess.
Thank you. Unless they prove to us that it is not, it is.
PS. Chess game could also be staged without having to find a better player. My other answer is above.