On May 11, 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat down in a Manhattan office tower to play the final game of his rematch against an IBM computer called Deep Blue — and resigned in under an hour, in what may be the cleanest moment in modern history when a domain of human cognition quietly crossed over to a machine

The boundary between what computers can do and what only humans can do has moved many times across the past 80 years, but it has rarely moved in a way that anyone could see happening in real time. Most domains of human cognition have crossed over to machines gradually, in increments that took years to [...] The post On May 11, 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat down in a Manhattan office tower to play the final game of his rematch against an IBM computer called Deep Blue