02 Feb 2010
The Chess Master and the Computer

I strongly suspect that Gary Kasparov's review of the new book Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind by Diego Rasskin-Gutman may be better than the book itself.

This is our last chess metaphor, then—a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every year we have new chess programs, and new versions of old ones, that are all based on the same basic programming concepts for picking a move by searching through millions of possibilities that were developed in the 1960s and 1970s.

(link) [New York Review of Books]

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