After AlphaGo I began to appreciate that computer superiority doesn't mean an end to human play, as it is like an art. Maybe playing a game of chess or Go is li

After AlphaGo I began to appreciate that computer superiority doesn't mean an end to human play, as it is like an art. Maybe playing a game of chess or Go is like painting a picture, one with a distinct humanness to it. There is something lifeless and mechanical in GAN-produced pictures, which makes one yearn for a human touch. Unfortunately, chess players at least have now been forced to acknowledge the beauty and seeming artistry of modern chess engines - which indicates the "humanness" you cite is probably a perception we will need to re-evaluate. I'm an AGI-sceptic wrt current approaches including the Alpha series, so am not suggesting there is real intelligence there, just that we perhaps have historically assigned a near-spiritual reading to instances of human genius that (at least in the game-playing form discussed here) has now come under question.