Dada and After

Bridal Chorus

A robot maestro leads an orchestra at the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy (SPAA) in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Photo: Satish Kumar/Reuters.

Homework for Saturday

Beginning With the End in Mind

Eva Petrič, Rubik’s Cube 3, 2019. According to a study just published in Nature Machine Intelligence, DeepCubeA, an artificial intelligence algorithm created by researchers at the University of California, has solved the Rubik’s Cube in just over a second. Photo courtesy of Mourlot Editions, New York/Artnet.

Aida Approximately

Ai-Da, the world’s first robot artist, which will unveiled for the first time at the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Ai-Da’s solo art exhibition, titled “Unsecured Futures”, will open at St John’s College on June 12, 2019. Photo: PA.

The Dawn of the New Cycle

A worker assembles a pleasure doll at the WMDoll factory in 中山 (Zhōngshān), 广东省 (Guǎngdōng province), China. The factory counts more than 200 full-time staff workers, and claims to produce AI-powered handcrafted dolls, even if, for now, the AI’s soul is still very basic as they can whisper a few words and move eyes and arms, but cannot yet hold long conversations. Photos: 阿里宋 (Ālǐ Sòng)/Reuters.

A Beautiful Mind

I breathe a sigh of relief in learning that Diving Queen 吴敏霞 (Wú Mǐnxiá) (pictured in the second photo above along with her husband) attended and hosted the 体育大生意峰会 (Sport Business Summit) awarding ceremony held at 三里屯洲际酒店 (InterContinental Sānlǐtún) Hotel in 北京 (Běijīng), China on January 16, 2018 where the Go superstar 柯洁 (Kē Jié) (pictured in the first photo above) was awarded as one of the most influential people in sports business for the year 2017. Photos: Visual China Group.

Maybe I was looking in the wrong direction

• 柯洁获奖感言：人类无法超越AI 但可用来解说 | 柯洁 (Kē Jié) award-winning speech: Humans cannot go beyond AI, but it may be useful for understanding purposes, sports.sina.com.cn, January 17, 2018

Go star 柯洁 (Kē Jié) did not apparently change his wish for no revenge with AlphaGo on being awarded as one of the most influential people in sports business for the year 2017 on the occasion of the 体育大生意峰会 (Sport Business Summit) held at 三里屯洲际酒店 (InterContinental Sānlǐtún) Hotel in 北京 (Běijīng), China on January 16, 2018. Photo: sports.sina.com.cn.

Jeremy, tell Magnus that Garry’s letter might even not work for Sophia ’cause his self-quotes are far too long to be regarded as footnotes

Fragments d’un discours amoureux

13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov talking to Sophia the Robot – who was recently granted the Saudi citizenship – at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal on November 8, 2017.

Deep Rethinking: When Human Rights End and Human Resource Managements Begin

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (@Kasparov63)

A for Andromeda

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (@GKKasparov)

Here’s the video of my talk at the TED Conference on Human–Machine teaming:

Garry Kimovich Kasparov: Don’t fear intelligent machines. Work with them

Computers in classrooms

13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov talks to Hay Festival President Stephen Fry about machine intelligence today at 16,00 in live online streaming.

Lose to Win

Google’s AI AlphaGo defeated Go world’s number one 柯洁 (Kē Jié) for the third time in a row on Saturday, thus winning 3–0 the three-game match held in 乌镇 (Wūzhèn), China. “I faced a cold, calm and terrifying opponent, to the best of my ability, I could only predict half of AlphaGo’s moves. I wish I could have done better”, 柯洁 (Kē Jié) finally said.

柯洁 (Kē Jié)
Photo: Reuters/Stringer

No Ties Allowed

Google’s AI AlphaGo secured victory after winning also the second game in a three-game match against Go world’s number one 柯洁 (Kē Jié) in 乌镇 (Wūzhèn), China on Thursday, May 25, 2017. After the second defeat, 柯洁 (Kē Jié) commented: “I’m a little bit sad, it’s a bit of a regret because I think I played pretty well”.

柯洁 (Kē Jié)
Photo: 新华通讯社 (Xīnhuá News Agency)

Book with No Back Cover

Chess-News.ru‏ (@Chess__News)

Garry Kimovich Kasparov: “I won’t return to Russia; I’m willing to take risks, but I’m not used to doing silly things”. See https://www.inopressa.ru/article/22May2017/times/kasparov.html. “I won’t return to Russia”, 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov told Bryan Appleyard of The Times. “I’m willing to take risks, but I’m not used to doing silly things. I feel much safer living here [Ed. Note: in New York] than in many places, and I would never put my foot in certain countries which are too close to Russia. I don’t need any protection here”. Kasparov’s mother, Klara Shagenovna, still lives in Moscow. “We used to meet in Tallinn, Vilnius or Croatia, I see her several times a year, and we talk on the phone every day”, Kasparov said.

Constructive Feedback

• Associated Press, China blocks online broadcast of computer go match, Boston Herald, May 24, 2017

Chinese censors blocked online broadcast of the Go match between Go world’s number one 柯洁 (Kē Jié) and Google’s AI AlphaGo underway in 乌镇 (Wūzhèn), China. Photo: AP.

千里走单骑 (Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles)

柯洁 (Kē Jié), who once boasted he would never be beaten by a computer at the ancient Chinese game, said he had “horrible experience”. [Read more].

• Agence France-Presse in 上海 (Shànghǎi), World’s best Go player flummoxed by Google’s “godlike” AlphaGo AI, The Guardian, May 23, 2017

A screen at the 中国乌镇围棋峰会 (Future of Go Summit) in 乌镇 (Wūzhèn), China, keeps score during the match between Chinese player 柯洁 (Kē Jié) and Google’s AI AlphaGo. Photo: 吳鴻 (Wú Hóng)/EPA.

Lose to Win

• Steven Levy, “We Are All Kasparov”, Backchannel, May 23, 2017

13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov summed up his 1997 chess match with IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue by saying, “It was a single individual fighting one of the largest corporations in the world”. Photo: Stan Honda/Getty Images.

Yet Nigel knew that it would have happened...

• Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity, Conversations with Tyler, May 10, 2017

13th World Chess Champion, political activist, and author Garry Kimovich Kasparov joins Tyler for a conversation on artificial intelligence, Russia, Putin, how education must change, favourite cities for chess, the most likely challenger to Magnus Carlsen, Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky, the benefits of pressure for performance, and why we should speed up our search for new frontiers and challenges. [Read more].