Go was never thought of in that way. Search Google books for "Go chess artificial intelligence computer" and use the 20th century time filter. It was only beli

Go was never thought of in that way. Search Google books for "Go chess artificial intelligence computer" and use the 20th century time filter. It was only believed that Go was impervious to the brute-force search strategies employed by the most successful chess programs. The alternative was never "true understanding", but rather believed to be the application of knowledge engineering, expert systems, etc, none of which could be equivocated with "true understanding". Regarding poetry, the counter argument is that a modern neural network can't generate poetry any more than a Xerox machine can generate poetry. IOW, it can only replicate styles, not invent new ones. Though, that's often good enough as far as the vast majority of readers are concerned.