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I'm happy to speak with you this evening about artificial intelligence from a Thomistic perspective.

Part of this will be geared more toward Thomistic philosophy, Thomas's conversation with Aristotle,

and then how Thomas brings that into his

reading of gospel, the gospel of John. So we're going to cover a little bit of philosophical and

theological area today. And I've saved time at the end for questions because as artificial

intelligence is an emerging field,

I'm interested to hear what you have to say, especially from the different perspectives of what you study.

But we're going to begin in May of 1997 when world chess champion Gary Kasparov traveled to New York City to play a six-game match with Deep Blue,

a supercomputer developed by IBM, designed to beat world-class chess players.

This was their second meeting.

Kasparov, whom some considered the best chess player of all time, had won handily against Deep Blue in a tournament

in Philadelphia the year prior, but he had proposed a rematch, and Deep Blue's programmers had been

hard at work. Its new generation of hardware was twice as fast, and it could search 200 million

chess positions per second to a depth of six to eight

pairs of moves. Kasparov became, according to his own words, the man and the proverbial

man versus machine competition. In New York, he won the first game, Deep Blue the second. The next

three games ended in a draw, and going into the sixth

game, Kasparov was under tremendous stress, according to Deep Blue's developer, who said that he

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