Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
October 27, 2019
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Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span> If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a> or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>. Here’s the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode):</p>
<p>00:00 – Introduction<br />
01:33 – Love of winning and hatred of losing<br />
04:54 – Psychological elements<br />
09:03 – Favorite games<br />
16:48 – Magnus Carlsen<br />
23:06 – IBM Deep Blue<br />
37:39 – Morality<br />
38:59 – Autonomous vehicles<br />
42:03 – Fall of the Soviet Union<br />
45:50 – Putin<br />
52:25 – Life</p>