[TheOtherHobbes]

In 1989, Gary Kasparov said that it was "ridiculous!" to suggest a computer would ever beat him at chess.

"Never shall I be beaten by a machine!”

In 1997 he lost to Deep Blue.

[FartyMcFarter]

Yeah, and back then people moved the goal posts too, saying Deep Blue was just "brute-forcing" chess (which isn't even true since it's not a pure minimax search).

[bananaflag]

Deep Blue was brute forcing chess in the sense that AlphaGo wasn't brute forcing Go.

[FartyMcFarter]

Both of them contained a search algorithm that explored some moves from each considered position, usually not all moves. Both of them contained logic (learned or programmed) to evaluate moves and/or positions.

The differences between them are many, but brute force doesn't enter into it in either case.

[Applejinx]

And today he's got salient observations on politics which hold much of his attention, and Deep Blue is shut off and has done nothing further.

Not a good argument for turning everything over to the Deep Blues. What's Deep Blue done for me lately?