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> That humans can make sufficiently strong calculators has never been a dispute in my mind. Within our lifetimes (unless you're quite young) it was doubtful if

by kadoban 13d ago

> That humans can make sufficiently strong calculators has never been a dispute in my mind. Within our lifetimes (unless you're quite young) it was doubtful if a go ai would ever beat a decent human. Same was true for chess a generation or two earlier. It's news because it's the handoff of man to machine being the best at a particular thing. This current news is news from the other way, this human did _exceptionally_ well.

thataccount 12d ago
>It's news because it's the handoff of man to machine being the best at a particular thing. That's a way to see it. Another way to see it is that for any given event in a zero sum game, one of two outcomes, where two players are involved, will occur. Man only had to beat machines for what, 200-400 years only for it to beat man how many times for it to be "best"?