Looks more like super-human play. The computer is seeing patterns that aren't apparent to humans. Patterns of time and momentum, with pieces scattered across t

Looks more like super-human play. The computer is seeing patterns that aren't apparent to humans. Patterns of time and momentum, with pieces scattered across the board. Non-local multidimensional high-complexity patterns. Of course the best players also see deeper than the rest of us. But in hindsight the moves are rational and the patterns visible, because they're the kinds of patterns we can grok. I wonder if this just a teaser, a taste of things to come. If we can model a situation we can simulate it. Weather, traffic congestion, etc. With a cost function and players, we've got a game engine. Cooperative or competitive. So how does this evolve? Phone apps that organize flash mobs? Google cars that weave helter-skelter without stop lights on bi-directional lanes. Software that calls all the plays, coaches the game, generals the war, controls the money supply or the trading on a futures market. Will we become the spectators, happily playing our side of an invisible gambit?