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Re:Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed by adrianN on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @03:10AM (#11025346)
Playing chess better than humans was certainly deemed impossible by some people (not the ones who wrote chess programs, of course). See for example Hubert Dreyfus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus%27s_views_on_ar...

While progress came not as quickly as AI researchers (or their universities' publicity departments) had hoped, computers can now do a lot of the things that he wrote about for example in "What computers can't do".

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Re:Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed by gjm11 on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @09:29AM (#11026569)
Dreyfus does not appear to have claimed that computers would never be able to play chess well. At least, not in that book.

He reacted with skepticism when Newell and Simon said in 1957 that a computer would be world chess champion by 1967 and, well, he was right to.

He said that the computational techniques in use for computer chess in the 1970s wouldn't be capable of producing a world-class player, and he was probably wrong about that -- largely, I guess, because he didn't foresee how big an impact a performance improvement of ~10000x could have.

If he actually claimed that playing chess better than humans was impossible, can you say where?

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Re:Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed by DonaldFisk on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @09:31AM (#11026578)
Dreyfus was defeated at chess by MacHack in 1967: https://www.chess.com/article/view/machack-attack
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