> will probably continue But will it, and why? This is little more than an article of faith. Computers are getting faster according to a given model, a model w

> will probably continue But will it, and why? This is little more than an article of faith. Computers are getting faster according to a given model, a model whose underlying technological process is reaching fundamental (scientific, not engineering) limits. We have no idea if whatever replaces that model will be anywhere as scalable as Moore's Law. > computer chess Computers play chess very differently from humans (they do what amounts to a brute force search of the state space and choose the best option). This is basically taking a well-known algorithm and figuring out how fast a computer needs to be in order to solve it in a tractable manner - cryptographers do the same thing when they decide that a cryptosystem can't be brute-force cracked in a reasonable amount of time. There is no well-defined algorithm for passing the Turing test, and given how so many of the 'interesting' problems in AI are outside the domain of highly logical, rules-based algorithms, using the same metric to measure them is not that useful.