Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Like Deep Blue playing chess but not understanding chess?
Was too lazy to mention something about how a program plays chess and other games/performs other decision-making processes compared to how humans do, but was skimming along and saw another chess reference so I got suckered into it. The thing about programs that play chess like Deep Blue, Fritz, Junior, Hiarcs, and so on is that the analysis and evaluation that they perform is based on a set of rules. If a human sat down with a flow-chart type deal representative of the decision-making processes in these chess engines, then he or she would come up with the same moves. These types of programs don't think -- they follow a flow chart faster than we can.