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POPSIntelligent Computers Put To The Test It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be 'conscious' - and if humans should have the 'right' to switch it off. >>> I haven't seen humans having too much problem in 'shutting off' each other. What does it say about consciousness ?
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POPSOn This Day 10 Years Ago, Chess Champion Defeated By Supercomputer WN: Kasparov's request for a rematch was turned down. Why do you think that was? It looked like IBM had got good publicity but took the ball away and didn't want to play anymore. Campbell: I believe we had accomplished what we were trying to do for so many years and it was time to move on to other problems. Garry Kasparov has now retired from chess and Deep Blue is in a museum so that's not going to happen, but matches between other computers and the current world champion have taken place as recently as last year.
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POPS Garry Kasparov's Views On Putin
Gigot: I asked him how western leaders should respond to the crack down on free speech in Russia and whether it would matter if they criticized Vladimir Putin. KASPAROV: It matters a lot. But it is not only about criticizing it is about actions. They played into Putin's hands by accepting him as one of the equals. Bringing Putin into the G-7 exclusive club created a democratic aura for Putin in Russia and made it difficult for us to criticize him. GIGOT: He is sitting with all those guys, the other democratic leaders. KASPAROV: Absolutely. And they call him a democrat. So who we are in Russia telling that Putin is wrong in doing certain things in our country. Also, it helps Putin to boost his authority with Russian ruling elite. Money, all money of Russian bureaucracies kept in the free world. They can make friends with China, Iran, whoever but their financial interests are in the free world. So if the Western readers want to look serious they have to follow the money.
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POPSChess Champ Kasparov Arrested At Anti-Kremlin Protest Police have cracked down on Other Russia marches this year, hitting protesters with batons and detaining hundreds, but they recently adopted a softer approach. On Saturday they kept their distance until a squad of riot police blocked the march. Plain clothes police roughly pushed and pulled people into vans and police armed with batons grabbed protest leaders. Kasparov, a leader of Other Russia, was charged with public order offences and police said they would hold him for five days "In a free country you can express your opinions but in Russia you can't," said Alexei Alexeyev, a 26-year-old protester. "The police are very aggressive and I fear them," he said, explaining that police had detained him for 12 hours at an opposition protest in March. "Censorship is all around us and our freedoms have decreased, she said. Putin's way will not mean a better future." (AP Photo/Artyom Korotayev) http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/sp/100206chess;_ylt=ApJPlXncSMwbWVuiQVz4.pGaK8MA&a
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POPS The Tsar’s Opponent Kasparov is also popular among the American right. In 1991, he won the Keeper of the Flame Award from the Center for Security Policy, another neocon think tank. The award, which is given to “individuals for devoting their public careers to the defense of the United States and American values around the world,” has also gone to Newt Gingrich, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld. Such an award does Kasparov no good at home. There is a centuries-long tradition in Russia of xenophobia. In the Soviet era, Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, and hundreds of others were accused in the pages of Pravda of working for the C.I.A., M.I.6, or the Mossad. Vladimir Kryuchkov, who was the head of the K.G.B. under Gorbachev and directed the August, 1991, coup, was constantly trying to convince Gorbachev that his most liberal adviser, Alexander Yakovlev, was acting as a covert “agent of imperialist intelligence agencies.” Kasparov’s business-class ease abroad might be appealing to Americans,,,,,
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POPSAn unbelievable interview with ONE BRAVE MAN! (Video)
I caught this interview on "Real Time With Bill Maher" and I hung on every intellectual word that came from the brilliant mind of Garry Kasparov chess champion, who is running against Putin in Russia. It was enlightening but also a bit depressing, because there aren't many leaders that could reach the genius of this man. Especially, here in the USA, where, as Chris Mathews (a guest on "Real Time") said after the interview "that was so sophisticated, and this audience was listening to every word. Our guys here talk down to us!" I started thinking about that statement by Mathews ... Why do they talk down to us? The answer is clear, because so many in the voting block seem to want and NEED their leaders to talk down to them. They, like small children, want the protection of a BIG DADDY who will tell them "Don't you worry, I'm here to protect you." and so they go on talking down, just to appease in order to get votes. Depressing is too light a word for how this makes me feel.
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POPSDemocracy and Security more.... At the conference, the formal title of which is "Democracy and Security," there is a debate about whether a policy that promotes the former in places like Iraq is inversely correlated with the latter. Mr. Mudawi's experience in Sudan suggests democracy and security are, in fact, mutually reinforcing. He observes that Mr. Bashir's dictatorship has from the first been sustained by Islamic radicals such as al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, which used their influence with Mr. Bashir to infiltrate the security services and the army, and from there to sow chaos throughout the country.'
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