Synthetic intelligence won’t cease folks from taking part in video games

At this time’s existential questions on synthetic intelligence started in 1997 on a chessboard. That 12 months, world champion Garry Kasparov He misplaced to a pc named Deep Blue, forcing the chess world to grapple with the boundaries of human expertise. As a substitute of collapsing, chess has flourished, with extra gamers, video games, and communities than ever earlier than. This could encourage screenwriters, poets and artists who now fear that synthetic intelligence will depart them jobless.

We’re a pair of scholars and academics. Mr. Pandolfini watched the Kasparov-Deep Blue match in individual, whereas Mr. Raskin started studying the sport later that 12 months. Whoever watched the match knew how the story would finish. Sooner or later, if not in 1997, the algorithm might be victorious. However that did not diminish our enthusiasm for the sport.