Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess
player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, he
dominated the chess world, ranking world number 1 for most of those
19 years. While he has many historic matches against human chess
players, in the long arc of history he may be remembered for his
match again a machine, IBM's Deep Blue. His initial victories and
eventual loss to Deep Blue captivated the imagination of the world
of what role Artificial Intelligence systems may play in our
civilization's future. That excitement inspired an entire
generation of AI researchers, including myself, to get into the
field. Garry is also a pro-democracy political thinker and leader,
a fearless human-rights activist, and author of several books
including How Life Imitates Chess which is a book on strategy and
decision-making, Winter Is Coming which is a book articulating his
opposition to the Putin regime, and Deep Thinking which is a book
the role of both artificial intelligence and human intelligence in
defining our future. This conversation is part of the Artificial
Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more
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timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the
timestamp to jump to that point in the episode): 00:00 -
Introduction 01:33 - Love of winning and hatred of losing 04:54 -
Psychological elements 09:03 - Favorite games 16:48 - Magnus
Carlsen 23:06 - IBM Deep Blue 37:39 - Morality 38:59 - Autonomous
vehicles 42:03 - Fall of the Soviet Union 45:50 - Putin 52:25 -
Life