AI in 1997
2 events, oldest first. Each links to a page with details and sources.
- IBM Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov ★★★★★
IBM's Deep Blue won a six-game rematch against reigning world champion Garry Kasparov 3.5–2.5, the first defeat of a world champion by a computer under standard tournament time controls.
- Hochreiter & Schmidhuber introduce Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) ★★★★
LSTM introduced gated memory cells that let recurrent neural networks learn long-range dependencies, solving the vanishing-gradient problem that crippled earlier RNNs.