George Zarkadakis

I was really angry, but mostly with myself.

So it was a clear sign for me that the history of us competing with machines will be over soon.

There's a lovely article that comes out in the New York Times in the wake of Kasparov losing that says, well, it makes sense that the computer won at chess.

Chess is a small problem, but I want to see if a computer will ever be able to beat a world champion at the game Go, for which there are more board positions than atoms in the universe.

And it's a really exact and clear example of the so-called receding horizon.

where people really want to reserve something for ourselves that is not mechanizable.

What is it that is uniquely human?

Maybe it's our ability to write a poem.

Or maybe it's intuition, whatever that is.

Maybe it's certain forms of creativity or certain types of emotion.

And then people try to automate those things.

we then redefine our humanness again and again.

Kasparov's defeat marked a turning point.

A computer had beaten a human at a game humans taught it to play.

For scientists, it was a sign that maybe it was time to stop competing with machines and start collaborating with them.

Look, it's moving.

So, Dr. Collins.

I had plenty of occasions to imagine having to give the speech where I would say, basically, we failed, we give up.

When geneticist Francis Collins and his team first embarked on the Human Genome Project, it was a daunting task.

They wanted to map out the order of the three billion base pairs that made up a tiny molecule, our DNA.