Man vs. machine:
Opinions from the street

		Nick Phelps, doorman at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in midtown Manhattan: You'd like to think that the human element would still beat a computer. But if you've got the top human mind in game against a computer you would expect a computer to win. There's something romantic about the idea that a human could still beat all of that. You expect computers to numerically beat out thinking. But there's no emotion to computers.
		Leah Jacobs, real estate manager, walking her dog Moishe: I'd like to see humans triumph over machines. It pits us against computer programers. I would be interested to see what the outcome would be. The main significance will be for Kasparov. A win will be ego inflating.
		Rafael Ramirez, tourist from Montreal waiting to buy Broadway tickets in Time Square: Eventually we will create a computer that a man can't beat. It's only a matter of time. Kasparov will win because humanity shall prevail.
		Glenn King, a puppeteer who often performs in Manhattan's Central Park: I work with puppets and teach elementary school children. One of the questions that often comes up when I'm teaching is "Why do you need a person to do a puppet when a machine can do it?" My response to the kids is that I think intuitively; there are things I can do as a human being that a machine can't do. Could a computer have been intelligent enough and intuitive enough to come up with e=mc2? If we could we have taken the brain of Einstein and put it into a computer would the computer have fed us that formula? I don't think it's a reality. How do you process wisdom?
		Sixteen-year-old Kerry Corbin, eating a burrito in Central Park: A computer has the smartness because a computer runs everything -- almost -- in New York City. Of course I think it could beat a man. But I guess Kasparov had his luck with the computer this time and that's why he beat the computer. Computers almost always win in everything.