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		jacquesm on Nov 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough... > We all thought Chess was impossible for computers until it wasn't. I don't know who 'we' is but Chess was a program for computers before computers powerful enough existed with the hardware represented by people computing the next move. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turochamp

spurgu on Nov 23, 2023 [–]

The point was to not overvalue the superiority of humans, not that chess engines didn't exist.

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