Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: The Rise of the Machines
The impact of Deep Blue was undeniable, however. Chess has long been seen as a pinnacle of human intellectual achievement, and here was a machine giving the world champion a run for his money. In the imagination of the public, it certainly advanced the idea that machines were capable of “thought.” Machines like Deep Blue were precursors not just to modern chess engines, they also paved the way for development of large-scale predictive algorithms and AI models today.