You don’t need to go back to the 1920s for that. I heard multiple experts in the 1980s say that if a computer can beat top Go players, surely they are intellige

You don’t need to go back to the 1920s for that. I heard multiple experts in the 1980s say that if a computer can beat top Go players, surely they are intelligent like humans at that point. We keep moving the goalpost, but indeed that expectation for filling the blank goes up and yet it gets filled (and overshot by great stretches) a few years later.