
Anantharaman subsequently left IBM for Wall Street and Arthur Joseph Hoane joined the team to perform programming tasks. Hsu and Campbell joined IBM in autumn 1989, with Anantharaman following later. After their graduation from Carnegie Mellon, Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, and Murray Campbell from the Deep Thought team were hired by IBM Research to continue their quest to build a chess machine that could defeat the world champion. The Essex Bomb going down to the wire with Jon “The Brick” Wood.The project was started as ChipTest at Carnegie Mellon University by Feng-hsiung Hsu, followed by its successor, Deep Thought. If you’re a fan of this angry man in fake tan – you’re in for a real treat. Jon “The Brick” Wood vs Marc “The Essex Bomb” Sidwell See his arms flailing crazier than ever on our twitch channel here. Read gave up smoking Tuesday before the event and it clearly paid dividends. Matt “Crazy Arms” Read vs Shayan “The Kingstonian” Zarein Dolab Evtafiev’s insurmountable position on the board hailed a trip to the glue factory for the cloven combatant. A very even and high quality technical boxing performance from both fighters meant that Lähderinne wasn’t able to make his moderate weight advantage pay. Sakari “Horse Attack” Lähderinne vs Nikita “Razor” EvstafievĮvastafiev took charge of the chess board early on whilst capturing Lähderinne’s horses (knights) in the first few move – removing the threat of a horse attack. See how the fight unfolded watch and follow on Twitch here! The audience, commentators and White himself were left stunned by what they thought was a blunder to lose his queen in the final round of chess by the Ounch. White attacked the first boxing round with vigour and landing several devastating combination on Ouch’s face. The rapid destruction of Toby Whites position in the first round of chess set this bout up fo a fiery second round. and rebooted ready for his next outing on the 14th March 2020 – VIVA LA MACHINA! Looks like we’ve got some way still to go before we can become your AI overlords.”ĭon’t worry folks, Toto is O.K. I’m much more self-aware than, say, Wayne Rooney, but I still dress like a bit of a plonker. Nowadays, I’m almost as intelligent as your average human. I was just about able to promise to give 110% for the gaffer, start fights outside nightclubs and listen to Mark Morrison on my Sony Walkman. “In the 90’s my artificial brain was only as intelligent as a premier league footballer.
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Watch the full fight here.īoxing robot Chappie, who starred in the 2015 eponymous movie alongside Norwich City fan Hugh Jackman, watched the show at home on Twitch with this pals StockFish and Alpha Zero: To calls of “Blood and Iron”, it took Bismarck no less than 14 seconds to level the machine learning leviathan – winning by knock out. However, Toto proved far less obdurate between the ropes. Neither fighter defending, neither giving the other a moment’s pause, a Turinical nightmare from the pages of a sci-fi novel.

A seismic clash of man and machine, the likes of which never seen before, exploded in a squall of swinging limbs, ligatures and levers. Underneath Toto’s exoskeleton a myriad of wiry fibers bushed from his torso whilst he limbered up for his first ever boxing round. Unlike his namesake, Otto was going into the first boxing round with his defensive strategy in tatters, at least on the board.īismarck, the archetypal human being, a complex carbon life form, dignified and rippling with muscle – removed his shirt. The artificial Irishman’s mechanical brain whirring through 1.2 million calculations per second managed to leaver open Otto “Bismark” Viherä’s king side defence. Not since Deep Blue has the planet seen an AI chew through it’s opponent on the chessboard with such unyielding objectivity. A fully operations humanoid chess robot called Toto dancing to “It’s Raining Men” by the Weather Girls. The audience stood agog, unable to process exactly what they were seeing.
