Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov famously lost to IBM’s ‘Deep Blue’ computer in 1997, but he still insists that artificial intelligence (AI) is something that the human race should utilise as its most “powerful” tool, rather than fear its increasing ubiquity.
Kasparov is considered by many to be one of the most significant chess players in history. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked as the world number one player for 225 out of 228 months.
His 1997 loss to Deep Blue is often considered to be a watershed moment in the development of computers and AI, as […]
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