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GHT_014951 --- PAGE BREAK --- TED2017: The future you https://ted2017.ted.com/program 4/20/17, 12:07 PM Neesm ay macsopeuy Grandmaster, analyst Garry Kasparov is esteemed by many as the greatest chess player of all time. Now he’s engaged in a game with far higher stakes: the preservation of democracy. When
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014952 →dy the stuff of legend when, in 1997, he made headlines when he lost a rematch to IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer, ushering AI into the public sphere. Kasparov’s book Winter Is Coming details the rise of Putin’s Russia as well as Kasparov’s persecution and self-exile, and it serves chilling warnings of react
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014952 →ons, made despite fears or hesitation, can make for a drastically more meaningful day-to-day experience at work, or in life. Word-of-blog chatter in Silicon Valley may have propelled his book to bestselling success, but Ferriss himself takes a fervid stance against the distractions of technology toys that promot
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014952 →ne article described Deep Blue’s victory not as that of a computer, which was just a dumb machine, but as the victory of hundreds of programmers over Kasparov, a single individual. That way of programming is changing dramatically. After a long hiatus, the power of machine learning has taken off. Much of th
, we programmed computers using algorithms we understood at least in principle. So when machines did amazing things like beating world chess champion Garry Kasparov, we could say that the victorious programs were designed with algorithms based on our own understanding—using, in this instance, the experience and a
anged my life.” He had five children by that time—video-game players—who got him into the “flving robots.” He quit his day job at Wired. The rest is Silicon Valley history. 103 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016906 GRADIENT DESCENT Chris Anderson Chris Anderson is an entrepreneur; former editor-in-chief of Wired; co-founde
ne article described Deep Blue’s victory not as that of a computer, which was just a dumb machine, but as the victory of hundreds of programmers over Kasparov, a single individual. That way of programming is changing dramatically. After a long hiatus, the power of machine learning has taken off. Much of th
, we programmed computers using algorithms we understood at least in principle. So when machines did amazing things like beating world chess champion Garry Kasparov, we could say that the victorious programs were designed with algorithms based on our own understanding—using, in this instance, the experience and a
anged my life.” He had five children by that time—video-game players—who got him into the “flving robots.” He quit his day job at Wired. The rest is Silicon Valley history. 103 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016323 GRADIENT DESCENT Chris Anderson Chris Anderson is an entrepreneur; former editor-in-chief of Wired; co-founde
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