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Title: Deep Thinking

Subtitle: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Author: Garry Kasparov

Narrator: Bob Brown, Garry Kasparov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-17

Publisher: John Murray

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Garry Kasparov gives his first public account of his landmark 1997 chess match with the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue and explains why, 20 years later, he's become convinced that artificial intelligence is good for humans.

In May 1997 the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at the point where it could best human intellect.

It wasn't a coincidence that Kasparov became the symbol of man's fight against the machines. Chess has long been the fulcrum in the development of machine intelligence; the hoax automaton 'The Turk' in the 18th century and Alan Turing's first chess program in 1952 were two early examples of the quest for machines to think like humans - a talent we measured by their ability to beat their creators at chess. As the preeminent chessmaster of the '80s and '90s, it was Kasparov's blessing and his curse to play against each generation's strongest computer champions, contributing to their development and advancing the field.

Like all passionate competitors, Kasparov has taken his defeat and learned from it. He has devoted much energy to devising ways in which humans can partner with machines in order to produce results better than either can achieve alone. During the 20 years since playing Deep Blue, he's played both with and against machines, learning a great deal about our vital relationship with our most remarkable creations. Ultimately, he's become convinced that by embracing the competition between human and machine intelligence, we can spend less time worrying about being replaced and more thinking of new challenges to conquer.

In this breakthrough book, Kasparov tells his side of the story of Deep Blue for the first time - what it was like to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent, the mistakes he made and the reasons the odds were against him. But more than that, he tells his story of AI more generally and how he's evolved to embrace it, taking part in an urgent debate with philosophers worried about human values, programmers creating self-learning neural networks and engineers of cutting-edge robotics.

Members Reviews:

Excellent personal account

Bob Brown narrates very well but I would have preferred Gary reading the whole book not just the introduction. My reason for this is that it's quality comes from the human personality of Gary and a part of that is his vocal expression.

Masterpiece

this was an interesting listen as it comes first hand from someone who has had a lot of experience with A.I. over several decades. a great story :)

Nothing to do with AI, boring historical account of deep blue games

Nothing to do with AI, boring historical account of deep blue games. Why would anyone be interested in this?

an excellent book

I was lucky enough to meet Gary in 2001 and the book finally articulates his thoughts on the Deep Blue match in a way which makes perfect sense.