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Deep Blue wouldn't beat you in chess? Computers being good at chess has been true for 30 years.

• ripe 4y ago
  … and those chess-playing computers were called AI in those days, so parent is right about that part. But parent has fallen into the trap of mistaking performance on a narrow task for competence in general, i.e., the third deadly sin [1]. [1] Rodney Brooks, the seven deadly sins of AI predictions: https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241837/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241837/the-seven...