Will computers overtake humans in intellectual ability?
In 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of six games in a rematch against the supercomputer Deep Blue. The year before, Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, winning three games to one (with two draws) against the supercomputer. During the rematch, Kasparov won the first game but then began to struggle. When it was all over, Deep Blue claimed the victory with two wins against one with three draws. Was Kasparov’s loss a sign that computers had become smarter than people? It’s true that computers can perform calculations at a blistering pace. The Jaguar supercomputer has a top speed of 2.33 petaflops — it can perform more than 2 quadrillion calculations every second [source: National Center for Computational Sciences]. By comparison, Hans Morvec of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University estimated the
