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Future Renaissance CEO Peter Brown spearheaded IBM's Deep Blue project
“Specifically, IBM's Deep Blue chess project of the time had come out of this group, and Peter Brown there was the one that actually spearheaded the project.”
IBM's Deep Blue proved that scaling search works in AI
“We learned that scale really does work. And in that case, it wasn't scaling, you know, training and neural nets, it was scaling search.”
Fry: IBM Deep Blue introduced deliberate delays to simulate human thinking
“The IBM team deliberately coded their machine so that the way that it worked for you would sort of search for solutions. And depending on how long that search would take, it would be how quickly the answer came back, but they deliberately coded it so that some…”
Fry: Chess grandmasters agree Kasparov was still better than Deep Blue
“Because I think all of the chess grandmasters are pretty much uniformly in agreement that at that moment in time, when the machine beat Kasparov, Kasparov was still the better player. But it was the fact that he was a human, it was the fact that he had those h…”