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February 10, 1996: The Machines’ Takeover Begins

Today marks the anniversary of a watershed moment in human history. In Philadelphia, the IBM computer named Deep Blue became, on February 10, 1996, the first machine to beat a reigning chess world champion, Garry Kasparov.
While nobody could have known at the time, this was the moment when machines truly began their conquest of Earth. […] Continue reading

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