His opponent was Chinook, a checkers-playing program programmed by Jonathan Schaeffer, a round, frizzy-haired professor from the University of Alberta, who operated the machine.
But this was a different sort of competition, the Man-Machine World Championship. It's possible no single person had ever dominated a competitive pursuit the way Tinsley dominated checkers. Tinsley had been the world’s best for 40 years, a time during which he'd lost a handful of games to humans, but never a match. "Because social platforms are the kind of business where conflict is built-in.Marion Tinsley-math professor, minister, and the best checkers player in the world-sat across a game board from a computer, dying. "Anybody who tells you we can eliminate it, it's absolutely impossible," he said. However we end up regulating social networks, he predicted that no legislation can totally eliminate the harm it causes, from hate speech to making teenagers feel bad about themselves. Kasparov suggested that authorities have struggled to regulate fast enough to keep up with the social media revolution partly "because governments look at big tech as a source of income". He spoke amid growing international calls for the immense power of tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to be reined in.įacebook in particular has faced intense criticism over leaked documents showing that company executives knew about their sites' potential to harm people's safety on numerous fronts. "Because it's governments who could make legislation to force corporations to start doing things that will minimise the damage." "What I want is a good public debate that will end up with recommendations to the government," he said. He pointed to the speed at which vaccines were developed in response to Covid-19, a lightning effort compared to work fighting earlier diseases, as something that made him hopeful about the power of innovation.īut he called for better regulation worldwide to help limit the negative impact of social media and other evolving technologies.
"Humanity always wins with more technology brought in." I don't want to sound callous - people will lose jobs. Kasparov might be described as a techno-optimist, but he does not totally dismiss the fears of AI naysayers who worry that robots will replace jobs once done by humans, from factory workers to truck drivers. While Terminator-style robo-assassins remain the stuff of science fiction, human rights groups are already pushing for international laws to restrict the use of so-called "killer robots", predicting that AI will transform warfare in the years to come.Īt the Web Summit, meanwhile, tech gurus have spent the week discussing more positive potential applications of AI, from intelligent chatbots that boost our mental health to sorting plastic waste. The true threat, the Kremlin critic says, comes from "the dictatorial, totalitarian countries and the terrorists who will use this technology to harm us". The real danger comes not from killer robots but from people - because people still have a monopoly on evil." "There is simply no evidence that machines are threatening us. Whether you like it or not, it's happening," he said. "We live in a world where machines are playing bigger and bigger roles. When he wasn't busy taking on 10 simultaneous chess opponents at Lisbon's Web Summit earlier this month - handily beating them all in 45 minutes - he spoke about AI's growing role in society. Kasparov has remained fascinated by technology since his famous matches against IBM's Deep Blue computer in the 1990s. Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was beaten by a supercomputer - but when it comes to artificial intelligence, he is firmly convinced that it's the humans who pose the real threat. Chess Grandmaster and Avast Security Ambassador Garry Kasparov plays simultaneous chess games at the Web Summit in Lisbon, on Nov 3.
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