Kasparov had learned about 100,000 board positions. That’s a real number—we have established that a human master in a particular field has mastered about 100,000 chunks of knowledge. Shakespeare composed his plays with 100,000 word senses (employing about 29,000 distinct words, but using most of them in multiple ways). Medical expert systems that have been built to represent the knowledge of a human medical physician have shown that a typical human medical specialist has mastered about 100,000 concepts in his or her domain. Recognizing a chunk of knowledge from this store is not
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