Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In the late ‘90s, IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat the reigning world champion of chess. It paved the way for a revolution in automation
I Was There When is an oral history project that’s part of the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs and watershed moments in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the people who witnessed them. In this episode, we meet the chess player that Deep Blue beat, Garry Kasparov.
In Machines We Trust is a podcast about the automation of everything. Host Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review look at what it means to entrust artificial intelligence with our most sensitive decisions.
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CREDITS: This project was produced by Jennifer Strong, Anthony Green and Emma Cillekens. It was edited by Mat Honan and mixed by Garret Lang with original music by Jacob Gorski. The art is from Eric Mongeon and Stephanie Arnett.
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In the late ‘90s, IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat the reigning world champion of chess. It paved the way for a revolution in automation
I Was There When is an oral history project that’s part of the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs and watershed moments in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the people who witnessed them. In this episode, we meet the chess player that Deep Blue beat, Garry Kasparov.
In Machines We Trust is a podcast about the automation of everything. Host Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review look at what it means to entrust artificial intelligence with our most sensitive decisions.
Subscribe to In Machines We Trust on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-machines-we-trust/id1523584878
You can support our journalism by going to technologyreview.com/subscribe.
CREDITS: This project was produced by Jennifer Strong, Anthony Green and Emma Cillekens. It was edited by Mat Honan and mixed by Garret Lang with original music by Jacob Gorski. The art is from Eric Mongeon and Stephanie Arnett.
#podcast #technology #ai #artificialintelligence
