Deep Thinking

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1. bananaowlSep 2020
   I can heartily recommend "Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins" by Kasparov.

   It's his story on what happened around Deep Blue.

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2. raymondhMar 2018
   These topics are discussed in greater depth in Kasparov's book, "Deep Thinking".

   My view of the book: Very well written (and occasionally engrossing), well thought out, and strikes a more hopeful/reasonable tone that anything else I've seen on the subject.

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3. cuttothechaseOct 2026
   Agree with the shock but there is no doom and gloom.

   Looking at things after the temporary shock. Future is Human + computer assisted problem solving, working in tandem, just like what Garry Kasparov mentioned in his book [0].

   [0] - "Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins"

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4. AlbertCoryApr 2023
   There's one match in which it was not a game of perfect information, as Garry Kasparov says in "Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins":

   If you consider "perfect information" to include "knowledge of your opponent's previous games" (that's a big IF) then he did not have it against Deep Blue. IBM refused to give him any insight into what he was up against.

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5. AlbertCoryFeb 2023
   With respect to IBM: they've been at the marketing game for a long time.

   In Deep Thinking, Garry Kasparov details their ruthlessness with him in the 90s, where it suddenly went from a friendly match to a bloodthirsty drive to beat him at all costs. He wasn't even allowed to study the machine's games beforehand.

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6. yesenadamDec 2017
   Not the most informative headline. "He has written many books, but this may be his most important." I firmly doubt it. The story is an ad for a book, Deep Thinking, about computer chess, and in it "Kasparov uses his unrivalled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines" something he appears eminently unqualified to do.

   Karpov said that Kasparov doesn't love chess, he loves himself in chess. That's a bit harsh; he does appear to love chess a lot. But I know what he means. After a while, Garry's endless self-glorification gets very tiresome. Everyone likes talking of themselves I suppose, but Garry takes that to an impressively noxious level. But, like he himself often says, he was probably the greatest player ever, and those qualities were part of his success.

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