The Garry Kasparov we don’t know: The first person whose job is threatened by artificial intelligence

At the end of last month, a major cheating scandal rocked the chess world. Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen accused rival Hans Niemann of cheating at the Sincofield Cup in the United States. Cheating accusations are as old in the world of chess as the game itself, but the lengthy statement that Carlsen, 31, posted on Twitter, directing accusations once morest his 19-year-old opponent, was so earth-shattering that it prompted hundreds of the game’s “big masters” and cheat-detection experts. To analyze the most accurate details of the match that led to Carlsen’s withdrawal from the tournament. Analysts have looked at the many cheats Neiman may have used – notably with his past history of cheating – but ultimately the finger is generally pointed at one key culprit: artificial intelligence. Kasparov “Defender of Mankind” This incident brought to mind the long history of artificial intelligence in chess, which witnessed important events that marked the extent of the development of the field, to the extent that chess was considered at one time a means of measuring the level of intelligence enjoyed by machines. Perhaps the first of these historical moments was the British computer scientist Alan Turing, who wrote a program to play chess even before there was a computer to run it.

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