![]() ![]() ![]() For months now, commentators have been coming face-to-face with the shocking capabilities of a new generation of AI engines like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and are walking away staggered, with a sickened certainty that something big is afoot, but only the haziest notion of where it might be leading. Today, we’re experiencing a new moment of AI vertigo. Commentators used to thinking of elite-level chess as a sort of irreducibly human area of excellence-the pinnacle of our species’ intellect-were forced into a moment of humility, reconsidering the topography at the outer limits of human and machine intelligence. A machine had beaten the human world chess champion in a competitive match for the first time. It’s easy now to forget how shocking the moment was: just after 4pm on May 11th, 1997, Garry Kasparov resigned in the final game of his highly anticipated chess match against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer. Garry Kasparov ponders his next move during his match against Deep Blue, 1997. ![]()
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