Katy Steinmetz is a creative director at Catchword, a naming agency based in Oakland, California, and former San Francisco bureau chief for Time.

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. IBM built Deep Blue, the first chess AI to beat a human champion, ...