Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by skew-aberration on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:13AM (#50351038)

I grew up with these machines around, and as a kid they seemed to so much more powerful than humans. It's kinda weird to think that I became 'smarter' than them eventually. I suspect they will be able to run superhuman AI one day too.

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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by myrmidon on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:54AM (#50351430)

I don't think that real-time, superhuman AI performance is ever gonna happen with <1b parameter models.

Biology had a lot of time, attempts and pressure to make this work but even the most optimized lines (something like a magpie) need more complexity (almost a billion neurons) to get a fraction of superhuman intelligence.

Results with small artificial neural nets are very limited so far, too.

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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by skew-aberration on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:46AM (#50351924)

On the other hand, symbolic reasoning easily gets superhuman results in narrow domains. The Robbins Conjecture was proved on hardware like that after 60 years. You could check out this theorem prover benchmark suite that has been maintained for over 30 years https://www.tptp.org/

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