Kasparov 1989: 'Never Shall I Be Beaten by a Machine!'
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A text screenshot quoting Garry Kasparov's interview with Thierry Paunin on pages 4-5 of issue 55 of Jeux & Stratégie (1989). The interviewer notes grandmasters Portisch and Larsen had lost to chess computers 'Leonardo' and 'Deep Thought' and asks if a computer will ever be world champion. Kasparov replies: 'Ridiculous! A machine will always remain a machine... Never shall I be beaten by a machine! Never will a program be invented which surpasses human intelligence. And when I say intelligence, I also mean intuition and imagination. Can you see a machine writing a novel or poetry? Better still, can you imagine a machine conducting this interview instead of you? With me replying to its questions?' The quote is devastating dramatic irony: Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997, and every rhetorical 'impossible' he lists - machine-written prose, machine-conducted interviews - is now mundane LLM output
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Every confident 'never' in tech ships with an eight-year TTL; Kasparov's just happened to have excellent logging
Kasparov's `never` passed CI only because the test suite had an eight-year timeout.
Are machine becoming more human like, or are humans becoming more like machines? Comment deleted
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the channel is experiencing brain death Comment deleted
them clankers launched a psyop against it so that everyone leaves Comment deleted
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Kaspars is literally him Comment deleted
Wasn't Kasparov beaten by Deep Blue shortly after that interview? Comment deleted