Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

by Garry Kasparov

We confuse performance—the ability of a machine to replicate or surpass the results of a human—with method, how those results are achieved. This fallacy has proved irresistible in the domain of higher intelligence that is unique to Homo sapiens.

Romanticizing the loss of jobs to technology is little better than complaining that antibiotics put too many grave diggers out of work.

AI products tend to evolve from laughably weak to interesting but feeble, then to artificial but useful, and finally to transcendent and superior to human.

Why did it do it? Well, when a Grandmaster sacrifices his queen it’s nearly always a brilliant and decisive blow. To the machine, educated on a diet of GM games, giving up its queen was clearly the key to success!

IBM is one of many companies now focusing on “IA,” or intelligence amplification, to use information technology as a tool to enhance human decisions instead of replacing them with autonomous AI systems.

Many jobs will continue to be lost to intelligent automation, but if you’re looking for a field that will be booming for many years, get into human-machine collaboration and process architecture and design.