Garry Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster and renowned commentator on human rights, AI, and cybersecurity, looks ahead to his appearance at Avast’s CyberSec&AI Connected this October
Garry Kasparov is one of the greatest chess players of all time. In 1985, aged just 22, he became the youngest chess world champion in history. His matches against Deep Blue, the IBM super-computer, brought the potential of AI to the world.
Garry has become a hugely respected commentator and author on AI, human rights, cybersecurity, and politics, making him an ideal speaker at Avast’s virtual conference CyberSec&AI Connected. The event brings together leading minds in AI, security and machine learning from around the world to examine AI for privacy and security.
In this extract from our CyberSec&AI Connected blog, Garry, who is a Security Ambassador for Avast, talks about his appearance at the conference as well as his views on AI, privacy and security. Your battles with Deep Blue did more to bring AI into the public consciousness than any other event. How much did Deep Blue help people grasp the potential of AI and how much did it perhaps lead to people misunderstanding what AI is?
It did a lot of both, in hindsight. Every watershed moment in technology creates a lot of hype, misconceptions, and then, over time, it becomes mythology. As the saying goes, we call something AI until we find a way to make it work, then we call it something else. This is why arguing about if Deep Blue was AI or not is irrelevant when talking about public perception and results. Deep Blue wo ..
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