How AI Actually Works

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"# How AI Actually Works Nineteen ninety-seven. Chess hall in New York City. Garry Kasparov — the greatest chess player alive — stares at a computer screen. Deep Blue just moved. The audience holds its breath. And Kasparov resigns. Not because he's tired. Because he can't see a way forward. A machine just beat the human brain at the thing humans thought made us special: strategy. Except here's what nobody tells you about that moment. Deep Blue wasn't *thinking.* Not the way Kasparov was...."