The Coming Robopocalypse of Knowledge Jobs • InsNerds.com

Back in 1994, Tony was learning to play chess under the tutelage of long-time Costa Rican National Champion Bernal Gonzalez. While the chess training didn't stick, he very clearly remembers a conversation where the teacher explained that the world's best chess playing computer wasn't quite strong enough to be among the top 100 players in the world. Technology can advance exponentially, and just 3 years later in 1997, World Champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM's chess playing supercomputer Deep Blue. But chess is a game of logic where all potential moves are sharply defined and a powerful enough computer can simulate many moves ahead. Things got much more interesting in 2011, when IBM's Jeopardy playing computer Watson defeated Ken Jennings who held the record of winning 74 Jeopardy matches in a row.