In 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov, signaling the start of today’s much hyped fascination with artificial intelligence, or AI. Following Kasparov’s loss, however, a ...

It's been 16 years since Deep Blue first beat Gary Kasparov at chess representing a major breakthrough in terms of the ability of computers to surpass to outperform humans at certain tasks. But now ...

In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed the way humans play the game, and not always for the ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

When Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was beaten by IBM’s chess-playing computer in 1997, he didn’t see the defeat as a loss to the machine, but rather as a wake-up call for humans to the ...