He boasted, “In the end, that may have been my biggest advantage: I could figure out its priorities and adjust my play. Knowing that it was still basically a calculating machine gave Kasparov his edge back. Later, he discovered the truth: Deep Blue’s calculation speed was so advanced that, unlike other computers Kasparov had battled before, this one could see the material advantage of losing a pawn even if the advantage came many moves later. I could feel - I could smell - a new kind of intelligence across the table.” “I had played a lot of computers but had never experienced anything like this. “It was a wonderful and extremely human move,” Kasparov noted, and this apparent humanness threw him for a loop. He later explained, in an essay for TIME, that Deep Blue flummoxed him in that first game by making a move with no immediate material advantage nudging a pawn into a position where it could be easily captured. Feb.But after rallying to beat Deep Blue, winning three matches and drawing two after his initial loss, Kasparov wasn’t ready to give up on the human race - or himself.20, 1996: Science Loses Its Most Visible Public Champion 14, 1996: Big Holiday Bonus Shows Workers the Money 19, 1996: Canadian Bridge Crosses 8 Miles of Icy Ocean 2, 1996: FOIA Law Ushers in Digital Democracy
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Did I say "overlords?" I meant " protectors." So raise a glass in toast to our robot overlords. When the upgraded Deep Blue won the rematch against Kasparov the following year, there were those who thought this presaged humanity's downfall, but they were largely scoffed at as conspiracy theorists. Despite Kasparov rebounding from his first-game loss to beat Deep Blue in the match, the computer's win demonstrated the inevitability of the rise of artificially intelligent devices. While nobody could have known at the time, this was the moment when machines truly began their conquest of Earth.
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