What A Supercomputer Taught Chessmaster Garry Kasparov About AI

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 16, 2017

Human rights activist and former chess world champion Garry Kasparov joins us to discuss his book Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. Kasparov's career was challenged in 1997 when he faced off against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a chess match. He draws on this experience to explore the potential of artificial intelligence and how it could help humanity. 

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