The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed site about European start-upsWhen IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, some reckoned it was checkmate for humanity, as well as for the ancient sport itself. Newsweek magazine had billed the contest between the calculating machine and the then strongest player in human history as “The Brain’s Last Stand”. “Every human being who has worried about losing a job to a computer . . . is rooting for this compact, darkly handsome 34-year-old Russian to prevail,” wrote journalist Steven Levy.
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