Garry Kasparov’s New Book ‘Deep Thinking’

21st May 2017 - 2533 days ago

Garry Kasparov is a famous chess legend, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation in New York and author. He has just published his latest book ‘Deep Thinking, Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins’, which has received glorious reviews worldwide.

“From the man at the epi-center of one the ten defining moments of the 20th century, a fascinating and insightful overview of how computers came to surpass humans at chess, and what it means for mankind. Deeply researched and clearly exposited, it is also a revealing portrait of what it is like to be a real-life John Henry pitted against the steam hammer." Ken Rogoff, bestselling author of This Time is Different

In his book Garry Kasparov explains why, twenty years after his match with Big Blue, he's become convinced that artificial intelligence is good for humans. This is Garry’s first thorough account of the match, and it offers thoughtful meditations on technology. The title references what he believes chess engines cannot do: they can calculate, but not innovate or create. They cannot think in the deepest sense. In drawing out these distinctions, Kasparov provides an impressively researched history of AI and the field’s ongoing obsession with chess.

He describes what it was like to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent -- the mistakes he made and the reasons the odds were against him. But more than that, he tells his story of AI more generally, and how he's evolved to embrace it, taking part in an urgent debate with philosophers worried about human values, programmers creating self-learning neural networks, and engineers of cutting edge robotics.