CHAPTER 2
PURPOSE
Use your purpose to ask the right kind of questions
Most of you know Garry Kasparov as the grandmaster chess player who lost a game in 1997—but, as he often notes, he did win the first game!—to an IBM supercomputer program called Deep Blue. When I later had the opportunity to work with him on several papers, he would often joke that he considers himself the first human being to be fired from his job by AI.1
His loss to Deep Blue did not leave him depressed, however. Not at all. Instead, it energized him to rethink how the intellectual game of chess—in collaboration with AI—could be approached differently. Though Kasparov is ...
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