The Price of Being Human

In May 1997, in a conference room in New York, Garry Kasparov sat down to play the sixth game of a match against a stack of IBM hardware called Deep Blue. Nineteen moves later, he resigned. The

In May 1997, in a conference room in New York, Garry Kasparov sat down to play the sixth game of a match against a stack of IBM hardware called Deep Blue. Nineteen moves later, he resigned. The greatest chess player of all time had been beaten by a box in front of everyone. Everyone who was around for it remembers it, because it felt like a line had been crossed. And by the logic everyone applies to AI today, that should have been the end of chess… why would anyone watch humans play a game a mac