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Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: the Chess Match That Changed Our Minds About AI
In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down at a chess board in a Manhattan skyscraper. Kasparov, considered the best chess player of all time, wasn’t challenging another grandmaster. He was playing with an AI called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, built by IBM with a specific goal…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
Happy Monday, we hope you had a great weekend. Here’s what happened in tech land while we were out. 1. RIP Internet Explorer Microsoft has officially killed Internet Explorer. After ceasing support for Internet Explorer in June last year, asking users to swap out the annoying browser for a still annoying Edge, Microsoft has…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From a new antitrust warning for Microsoft to a new contract for IBM, here are five things headlining tech news today.
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Meta’s ‘Cicero’ AI Trounced Humans at Diplomacy Without Revealing Its True Identity
Ever since IBM’s Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997, humanity has watched, haplessly, year after year as our code based underlings vanquish us in ever more complicated games. There’s a catch though. While AI bots increasingly excel at trumping humans in head-to-head adversarial board…