A short history of AI schooling humans at their own games

Garry Kasparov plays a move against Deep Blue in their first game in Feb. 1996. Twenty-one years ago today, IBM computer Deep Blue famously beat chess world champion Garry Kasparov at his own game. While Deep Blue would go on to lose the full match, the event launched a long line of victories by artificial intelligence (AI) over humans in gaming. Since Deep Blue's initial triumph, many computer systems have challenged humans in other complicated games, like Go and poker. Games might seem a trivial way to measure AI.