Understanding Artificial Intelligence

From Kasparov to ChatGPT: Transforming Technology and Life

Juan Carlos Sánchez📚
4 min readNov 30, 2023

Get ready for a journey tour through Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) most exciting moments! We’ll use key historical events to explain the most important AI concepts: machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI. From a chess showdown that turned heads in 1989 to today’s tech wonders, I hope you’re in and leaving a comment.

“AI will not replace people, but people using AI will replace those who don’t.”

What is Intelligence? 🧠

Intelligence is learning, understanding, and applying knowledge to interact and solve tasks and problems.

… and Artificial? 🤖

Made by humans through a manufacturing or synthetic process, not occurring naturally.

… so Artificial Intelligence is:

A human-created technology that learns, understands, and applies knowledge to interact and solve tasks and problems.

AI-Generated: “An image depicting the historic chess match between Gary Kasparov and the AI chess player Deep Thought.”

Artificial Intelligence

Imagine it’s 1989, and you’re watching a chess match. But it’s not just any match — the player is Gary Kasparov, a world champion, and his opponent? A computer named Deep Thought, one…

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Juan Carlos Sánchez📚

🔎 Exploring Leadership and Digital Transformation. Bridging the Gap between Technology, Business, and People.