Other robots assist in intricate surgeries. I wonder if the chess-playing robot had a flash of recognition: other robots are helping to steer airplanes across oceans and spaceships into the stars. The idea was not just to demonstrate a computer could play a game of acumen and strategy, but master complex enterprises. Professor Calo says a few serious accidents occur every year because human beings do not program robots with sufficient safety features.Ĭomputers have been playing - and winning - chess games against Grandmasters since the 1980's, when Deep Thought was engineered at Carnegie Mellon University. There are 15 difficulty levels in this program - this will be enough not only to the amateurs but also to the professionals. We have developed a powerful game based on the Stockfish. We do not charge for playing and do not require you to register on site. But he doubts the ambush was a grudge of machine against human. Everyone can play chess online against computer Stockfish. He says the chess-playing robot should have been programmed to recognize the difference between a little boy's thumb and a pawn or a rook. Ryan Calo, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, read various accounts and told us, "I think the robot was going for a chess piece and got the little boy's hand instead." World Five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen says he will not defend his title "There are certain safety rules," he said, "and the child, apparently, violated them." Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the Baza Telegram channel that the robot had lunged after the little boy tried to make his move too quickly. He returned to the tournament the next day. The boy's finger was placed in a plaster cast.
Onlookers intervened to extricate the boy's hand from what's called the actuator, which a lot of us might call a claw. When I saw that a robot had broken the finger of a 7-year-old boy it was playing at the Moscow Open chess tournament, my first reaction was, "They're coming for us."Īll the machines that have been following commands, taking orders, and telling humans, "Your order is on the way!", "Recalculating route!", or "You'd really like this 6-part Danish miniseries!" have grown tired of serving our whims, fulfilling our wishes, and making their silicon-based lives subservient to us carbon breathers.Īnd so, a chess-playing robot breaks the finger of a little boy who was trying to outflank him in a chess match. A robot plays a game of chess against a man in 1985.