25. In 1997 Russian chess master Garry Kasparov lost a highly
publicized series of matches to an IBM computer named
Deep Blue. The computer used artificial intelligence to
process 200 million chess moves per second in developing
its strategy. This was the first time that an international
chess grand master had lost a series to a computer,
suggesting to some observers that advances in artificial
intelligence may be surpassing human capacity in some
areas.