It was billed as ‘Man vs Machine’: a showcase of how artificial intelligence can now compete against humans in the physical realm. Nearly three decades after Garry Kasparov took on IBM’s Deep Blue computer in a game of chess, another Russian champion – former F1 driver Daniil Kvyat – was to represent humanity in a race against a self-driving car.
But on an overcast November morning in Suzuka, Japan, it soon became a demonstration that, on this track at least, AI is not about to overtake humans. The driverless car crashed before the race even began.
