Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

by Garry Kasparov

In 1988, the roboticist Hans Moravec wrote, “It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility.”

I believe accepting losses too easily is incompatible with being a great champion—certainly this was the case with me.

The technology for automatic elevators had existed since 1900, but people were too uncomfortable to ride in one without an operator. It took the 1945 strike and a huge industry PR push to change people’s minds, a process that is already repeating with driverless cars. The cycle of automation, fear, and eventual acceptance goes on.

The machines have finally come for the white collared, the college graduates, the decision makers. And it’s about time.

We must face these fears in order to get the most out of our technology and to get the most out of ourselves.