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Deep Blue: spectacular, but clearly limited

IBM Deep Blue defeated 1997 the reigning world chess champion in the match. The machine was built for a precisely defined task.

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External research · MSD classification
Keine Behauptung eines eigenen Versuchs.

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What this finding means.

Grenzen des Nachweises

Impressive success in a confined space is not evidence of universal intelligence.

Our derivation for a pilot operation

Establish task scope, rules and measurable goal before evaluating a system as operational.

This derivation is an editorial recommendation from MSD. It is not a further result of the study cited.

Source and version

IBM · Historischer Projektbericht · Publikations-/Bezugsjahr 1997. Recherchiert am 12.11.2026.

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AI & Agents / Contrary finding / 2025

When AI makes work take longer: METR's contrary finding ↗

In a randomised trial with 16 experienced developers and 246 tasks, early-2025 AI tools increased completion time by 19%. Participants perceived their benefit much more favourably.

METR · Randomised trial
KI & Agenten / Methodik / 2026

Neue Werkzeuge, neue Auswahlverzerrung ↗

METR describes a follow-up experiment in February 2026. Evidence of faster work is difficult to interpret due to selection of participants and tasks as well as problems with time measurement.

METR · Methodenupdate 24.02.2026
KI & Agenten / Grundlage / 2017

Attention: Language can be processed in parallel ↗

The Transformer paper presents an attention-based architecture for sequence processing. It is a methodological building block of later language and multimodal models.

Vaswani et al. · Attention Is All You Need