If you pick up a more recent edition of the book, it includes a new preface where Hofstadter actually addresses a lot of this himself - he admits to being "emba

If you pick up a more recent edition of the book, it includes a new preface where Hofstadter actually addresses a lot of this himself - he admits to being "embarrassed" by his claim that computers that could beat people at chess would get bored of chess and talk about poetry, although I think he's being too hard on himself.