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In 1985, at the tender age of 22, I played against 32 chess computers at the same time in Hamburg, West Germany.

Believe it or not, I beat all 32 of them. Those were the golden days for me. Computers were weak and my hair was strong.

But just 12 years later, in 1997, I was in New York City fighting for my chest life against

just one machine, a $10 million IBM supercomputer nicknamed Deep Blue. It was actually

a rematch. I like to remind people that I beat

the machine the year before in Philadelphia, and this battle became the most famous human machine

competition in history. Newsweek's cover called it the Brainslaust stand, no pressure. It was my own

John Henry moment, but I lived to tell the tale.

A flurry of books compared the computer's victory to the Wright Brothers' first flight

and the moon landing. Hyperbole, of course, but not out of place at all in the history of our

love-hate relationship with so-called intelligent machines. So, are we repeating that cycle of hype and hysteria?

Of course, artificial intelligence is far more intelligent than all chess machines.

Large language models like chat GPD can perform complex tasks in areas as diverse as law art,

and of course helping our kids cheat on their homework.

But are these machines intelligent? Are they approaching so-called AGI, or artificial general

intelligence that matches or surpasses humans? And what will happen when they do if they do?

The most important thing is to remember that AI is still just a tool.

As powerful and fascinating as it is, it is not a promise of dystopia or utopia.

It is not good or evil, no more than any tech.

It is how we use it for good or bad.

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