IBM’s Deep Blue wasn’t supposed to defeat Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov when the two of them had their 1997 rematch. Computer experts of the time said machines would never beat us at strategy games because human ingenuity would always triumph over brute-force analysis. After Kasparov‘s loss, the experts didn’t miss a beat. They said Chess was too easy and postulated that machines would never beat us at Go. Champion Lee Sedol’s loss against DeepMind’s AlphaGo proved them wrong there. Then the experts said AI would never beat us at games where strategy could be overcome by human creativity, such as poker.…
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