Sunday, 17 January 2016

The place of human mind in the intellectual software

Twenty years ago Deep Blue computer defeated Kasparov, the best among humans in the chess game. The force, brute digital force, left no chance for the brain. In a decade, humanity striked back. The team of chess grandmasters, now virtual cyborgs strengthened by chess programs, outperformed Hydra, advanced version of Deep Blue. But they lose as well. The winners were two amateurs with soft on relatively weak laptops.

To some extent it was a historical event making us rethink the place of human mind in the postindustrial world.