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'''Planet of Origin''': [[Earth]]<br />
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'''Age''': [[Unknown]]<br />
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'''Voiced By''': [[Unknown]]<br />
|voiced by=Tress MacNeille
'''First Appearance''': [[Anthology of Interest I|"Anthology of Interest I" (2ACV16)]]
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'''Deep Blue''' was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM, the first machine ever to beat a human champion. Deep Blue is seen in the episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" as the summer intern of [[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]'s [[Vice Presidential Action Rangers]]. This seems to imply that Deep Blue received several more upgrades following 1997 and before 1999, which resulted in it being endowed with a crude [[Robots|artificial intelligence]]. Unfortunately, it appears that Deep Blue's VLSI chess circuits were never removed, thus resulting in its actions always being phrased in chess notation. It had no trouble playing other games like ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', though.


==Biography==
It seems to be alive in the [[31st century]] as it can be seen in the [[Wheel of Robots]].
'''Deep Blue''' was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM and seen on the Futurama episode [[Anthology of Interest I]] as the summer intern of [[Al Gore]]'s [[Vice Presidential Action Rangers]].
The computer system was the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion (Garry Kasparov) under regular time controls. The project was started as "ChipTest" at Carnegie Mellon University by Feng-hsiung Hsu; the computer system produced was named Deep Thought after the fictional computer of the same name from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hsu joined IBM (Research division) in 1989 and worked with Murray Campbell on parallel computing problems. Deep Blue was developed out of this. The name is a play on Deep Thought and Big Blue, IBM's nickname. The system derived its playing strength mainly out of brute force computing power. It was a massively parallel, 30-node, RS/6000, SP-based computer system enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips. After losing the match, Kasparov said that he sometimes saw deep intelligence and creativity in the machine's moves, which he could not understand. He also suggested that humans may have helped the machine during the match. His argument was based on the fact that other computer programs at that time could not find some of the strong moves that Deep Blue did. Kasparov demanded a rematch, but IBM declined and retired Deep Blue. Deep Blue was seen


==Additional Info==
== Additional Info ==
===Quotes===
=== Quotes ===
*'''Al Gore:''' Not all problems can be solved by chess Deep Blue.
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===Appearances===
<poem>'''Al Gore''': Not all missions can be solved with chess, Deep Blue. Some day, you'll understand that.</poem>
*[[Anthology of Interest I]]
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=== Appearances ===
*{{e|2ACV16}}
*{{e|4ACV18}} {{mito|[[Wheel of Robots]]}}
 
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Revision as of 22:15, 28 August 2015

Tertiary character
Deep Blue
Deep Blue.jpg
SpeciesSupercomputer
Planet of originEarth
First appearance"Anthology of Interest I" (2ACV16)
Episode
Voiced byTress MacNeille
Wikipedia has information unrelated to Futurama

Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM, the first machine ever to beat a human champion. Deep Blue is seen in the episode "Anthology of Interest I" as the summer intern of Al Gore's Vice Presidential Action Rangers. This seems to imply that Deep Blue received several more upgrades following 1997 and before 1999, which resulted in it being endowed with a crude artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, it appears that Deep Blue's VLSI chess circuits were never removed, thus resulting in its actions always being phrased in chess notation. It had no trouble playing other games like Dungeons & Dragons, though.

It seems to be alive in the 31st century as it can be seen in the Wheel of Robots.

Additional Info

Quotes

    Al Gore: Not all missions can be solved with chess, Deep Blue. Some day, you'll understand that.

Appearances