He hinted there had been unfair practices, denied he had really lost and concluded that nothing at all had been proved about the power of computers. "We're now doing things that used to be impossible." 'One man cracked'Īfter his defeat, Kasparov, who is still widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, was furious. "AI has exploded over the last 10 years or so," UCLA computer science professor Richard Korf told AFP. This is really about how we, humans, use technology to solve difficult problems," said Deep Blue team chief Chung-Jen Tan after the match, listing possible benefits from financial analysis to weather forecasting.Įven Chung would have struggled to comprehend how central AI has now become - finding applications in almost every field of human existence. "Deep Blue's victory made people realise that machines could be as strong as humans, even on their territory," he said.ĭevelopers at IBM, the US firm that made Deep Blue, were ecstatic with the victory but quickly refocused on the wider significance. It was an "incredible" moment, AI expert Philippe Rolet told AFP, even if the enduring technological impact was not so huge. Was a watershed for the relationship between man and machine, when the artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer Deep Blue finally achieved what developers had been promising for decades.
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