"It's just a new step in the history of human progress. I think we're still at the stage where we're yet to define what AI is, and you have to start with the 'I' – intelligence."Ĭhess Grandmaster and writer Garry Kasparov speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 - Day 3 at Pier 36 on in New York City.įor a man whose public battles with a machine were seen as a harbinger for a new era of computational prowess, he remains sanguine, insisting machines are not our enemies. "If you have 10 experts in the room and ask how they define AI, you may end up with 15 different answers. "I recommend being very careful using the word AI," he insists, in a gravelly Russian baritone. Who better to discuss AI with, than a man who was famously beaten by it?
Alongside his political life, his unique relationship with machines – after two decades of reflection – has turned Kasparov into a poster boy for embracing the future.
Since retiring from international chess in 2005, his life has been a perfect storm of human rights activism and anti-Putin polemic. Kasparov is in London with Avast, an information security firm for which he is ambassador, speaking at IP Expo.įorehead swollen and bandaged, the chess world champion of 15 years is three hours late for our interview due to an earlier car accident, but in good spirits, considering. Machine chess championship Februin New York City.
Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov ponders a move during the final match against chess supercomputer Deep Junior in the the Man vs.
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