> Now let's take another activity that humans should be good at: game-playing. It should be just the opposite. There was no evolutionary pressure on humans to

> Now let's take another activity that humans should be good at: game-playing. It should be just the opposite. There was no evolutionary pressure on humans to make them play Chess well. The games are interesting to us partly because they're challenging and make us think differently. If you want a fair comparison, you need to look at how successful we've been at making machines to do things animals were facing evolutionary pressure to do successfully. Imagine trying to build an ant. A machine with a tiny, power efficient brain, that coordinates with its fellows to gather resources and build enormous hives. Could we make computers do that? Maybe eventually, but we're nowhere close today. Just making a machine walk with grace is at the edge of what we can do.