IBM built the greatest machine in history, won $500,000,000, stock hits all-time high, then they turned it off
29 years ago today, Deep Blue was created to surpass humans
Deep Blue was a supercomputer that evaluated 200 million chess positions per second. IBM built it for one purpose: beat Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion since 1985
Timeline:
• 1996: Kasparov beats Deep Blue 4-2. IBM goes back to the lab
• 1997: IBM rebuilds it from the ground up
• May 11, 1997: Deep Blue wins the rematch. Kasparov resigns in 19 moves
• Next Day: $IBM stock jumps to a 10-year all-time high
• Kasparov accuses IBM of cheating and demands another rematch
• IBM refuses, shuts the project down, and retires Deep Blue to the Smithsonian
Nobody knew it then, but this was the first time a machine proved it could outthink a human
I literally don’t tweet ever. Have like zero following. But @espn should NEVER cover the masters again. How bad do these guys actually suck. It’s brutal.
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