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A lot of comments dismiss Kasparov's thoughts because he is out of his element(being one of the greatest chess players of all time, but apparently his brain is too small to understand AI). Can anyone explain why he can't be expert on AI? Is it because he doesn't have a degree in CS?

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He can be an expert on AI, of course, but this assumption requires proof. He's expert on chess and he proved it many times, but I'm not aware of anything related to AI. That said, he's smart man, of course, and it's interesting to listen to him anyway. I just have much more trust in people who actually work in this industry.

It's because what he says doesn't make sense. And when reality catches up he moves the target.

Take for example his conversation with Sam Harris[1] where Garry says that Human+Computer will always win over Computer only at chess. If you know about CS, if you've heard about AlphaZero, you can see that even if it might currently be that Human+Computer > Computer it surely won't be for long. It'll come a time that Human will be Computer's handicap, and we might be there already.

Now he moved on to speak about the narrow/general problem, but that doesn't make him any more of an expert. If you want to listen to an expert look for someone qualified, someone like Eliezer Yudkowsky.

[1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/the-putin-question/

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