The History of Artificial Intelligence

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Deep Blue had a better memory than we do and it did incredibly complicated calculations. But it was essentially just reflecting humans knowledge of chess back at us. It wasn't really generating anything new or being creative. Kasparov played the first model of Deep Blue in 1996 and he won. A year later against an updated model, the rematch didn't go nearly as well.

AI has the potential to impact our society in dramatic ways, but researchers can’t explain precisely how it works or how it might evolve. Will they ever understand it?

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