Kasparov: I was quite skeptical about a machine’s ability to play good chess in the 80s. Industrious: How have your thoughts about AI changed during your chess career? Our discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Now, Kasparov told Industrious in a recent phone interview, it’s time for industry leaders to make their move and seize the opportunity. Today, Kasparov said, it’s a potent force that will fundamentally transform industries. As AI technology has advanced, its influence has transcended the chess world. Those machines have come a long way since 1997. Despite his adversarial relationship with intelligent machines in competition, the chess grandmaster has long touted their educational benefit for chess players. That outlook actually shouldn’t be all that surprising to those who’ve followed Kasparov’s career beyond Deep Blue.

It’s the same position he brings to talks with business leaders around the world, including a web broadcast, “Machine Learning Everywhere: Build Your Ladder to AI,” with IBM. Y ou might not expect Garry Kasparov - a man famous for being the first chess world champion to lose a match to a supercomputer under tournament conditions- to be a vocal advocate of friendly collaboration between humans and AI.īut that’s exactly the position Kasparov presents in his new book, Deep Thinking, which recounts his historic 1997 match with IBM’s Deep Blue and spells out his hopeful vision for a future shaped by AI. Feb 20th, 2018 A Q&A with the chess grandmaster and author

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