Garry Kasparov: Learning to Love Intelligent Machines

If anything, it feels like people thought faster progress on AI would have been made over the last two decades. Deep learning is huge now, and will no doubt get bigger, but right now it feels limited to a few application areas and a few companies.

It seems like the expansion of the internet into mobile computing and our social lives were really the big story about tech in the last two decades. Google started in 1998; iPhone was released in 2007.

Kasparov makes a good point: humans and computers are good at different things. I expect that to remain true for awhile. We are seeing superhuman performance on tasks that are relatively well-defined. I think there will be a long tail of judgement and common sense that will lag behind the wins in data-driven recognition. And that is why human-computer systems will beat computer-only systems in almost all interesting applications.