Yes, I agree real life is fuzzy, I just chose chess as an example because it's unambiguous that machines dominate humans in that domain. As for being competiti

Yes, I agree real life is fuzzy, I just chose chess as an example because it's unambiguous that machines dominate humans in that domain. As for being competitive with humans: Again, how about running a scan of a human brain, but faster? I'm not claiming we're close to this, but I'm claiming that such a machine (and less-capable ones along the way) are so valuable that we are almost certain to create them.