NYU Mathematician Embroiled in AI Controversy Says the Machines Have Won: ‘The Game Is Up’
Humans have a long track record of being humbled by AI. Chess was celebrated once upon a time as a uniquely human activity, a game far too complex for any machine to master. The 1997 defeat of Garry Kasparov by IBM’s Deep Blue forever dispelled us of that idea.
- ▪Humans have a long track record of being humbled by AI.
- ▪Chess was celebrated once upon a time as a uniquely human activity, a game far too complex for any machine to master.
- ▪The 1997 defeat of Garry Kasparov by IBM’s Deep Blue forever dispelled us of that idea.
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Humans have a long track record of being humbled by AI. Chess was celebrated once upon a time as a uniquely human activity, a game far too complex for any machine to master. The 1997 defeat of Garry Kasparov by IBM’s Deep Blue forever dispelled us of that idea. Less than twenty years later, DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in Go, an ancient game many orders of magnitude more complicated than chess. But surely, people continued to think, computers will never be able to compose poetry or become so fluent in human speech that we sometimes mistake them for conscious beings.
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