{"id":602986,"date":"2026-08-24T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/602986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:56:15","slug":"kasparov-on-machine-intelligence-chessbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/602986\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasparov on machine intelligence | ChessBase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this DVD a team of experts gets to the bottom of Kasparov’s play. In over 8 hours of video running time the authors Rogozenko, Marin, Reeh and M\u00fcller cast light on four important aspects of Kasparov’s play: opening, strategy, tactics and endgame.<\/p>\n

I was part of the Kasparov team and witnessed the traumatic loss first hand, and had numerous discussions with Garry on the subject of computer intelligence. Here are a few excerpts from the WP interview\u00a0\u2013 with my comments in italics:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The things we think of as hard \u2014 like computation and chess \u2014 turn out to be relatively easy for machines, while the things we consider easy \u2014 the stuff a toddler does effortlessly, like walking, recognizing a face or picking up an object \u2014 turn out to be extraordinarily difficult to automate.<\/p>\n

As a science journalist, I had worked on the subject for years for a documentary the TV channel was planning \u2013 and made some daring predictions. Boy was I wrong!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fifty years ago, a Cray supercomputer was one of the wonders of the world, yet the phones in our pockets are thousands of times faster. The scale of improvement in AI was impossible to conceive. Brute computing force is ruling the world of AI.<\/p>\n

Indeed. In a recent article on our news page (How much faster are computers today?<\/a>) I provided stunning details.<\/p>\n

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Machines are making progress, but the danger comes from humans \u2014 bad actors. Humans still have a monopoly on evil. The machine is an amplifier. It can amplify good, and it can amplify bad.<\/p>\n

This is the subject of discussion that permeates the media today. Leading experts tell us that in just a few years we will have Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), digital systems that can match or beat human thinking on any intellectual task. Not just chess, where they already play at a 3600 Elo level, but in any cognitive job humans can do.<\/p>\n

ChessBase is re-releasing this timeless classic in the modern ChessBase Media format – complete with brand-new training features. Get ready to rediscover a masterpiece of chess instruction!
In 2004, 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov recorded a best-selling video course on the Queen\u2018s Gambit. Now, ChessBase is re-releasing this timeless classic in the modern ChessBase Media format – complete with brand-new training features. Get ready to rediscover a masterpiece of chess instruction!
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