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Garry Kasparov’s 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was once a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was once the crack of dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine able to beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game.
That moment was once more than a century in the making, and on this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time. He describes the way it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching, and recounts the history of machine intelligence through the microcosm of chess, regarded as by generations of scientific pioneers to be a key to unlocking the secrets of human and machine cognition. Kasparov uses his unrivaled experience to look into the way forward for intelligent machines and sees it bright with possibility. As many critics decry artificial intelligence as a menace, particularly to human jobs, Kasparov shows how humanity can rise to new heights with the assistance of our most abnormal creations, relatively than fear them. Deep Thinking is a tightly argued case for technological progress, from the man who stood at its precipice with his own career at stake.