Augmented Innovation: The Machines are Getting Ideas

Games are uniquely human, or so we thought – Chess, Jeopardy, and now Go. Will robots take our jobs? Has web search made us dumb? We heard most of these same fears back in the 1990's, when IBM's Deep Blue defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov at the chessboard. But defeat is a better teacher than victory and this was certainly the case for Kasparov who has now developed a system called Centaur Chess where a human and computer play as a team with the human choosing from moves suggested by the computer.