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Thinking Machines | Artificial Intelligence | S3-E1

American Innovations

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Using the M20 Computer in Computer Chess

Stanford professor proposes chess match between American and Soviet programs. Match threatens to pull obscure world of AI research into one of Cold War's most tense contests. Chess had become the perfect proxy for the standoff between the US and the USSR. International chess tournaments had become geopolitical events, and things were going to be the USSR's way.

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