This is a great article. I especially liked the idea that

> humans today are starting to play more like computers

ie, the advent of computers that are prejudice-free pushed human players into a whole different way of playing; from just the previous sentence:

> a move isn't good or bad because it looks that way or because it hasn’t been done that way before. It’s simply good if it works and bad if it doesn't.

What I don't like as much is the constant complaint that we're not trying hard enough to make computers think like humans, that Deep Blue and all its ilk dumbly calculate millions of moves without really "thinking".

This reminds me of the efforts that are made to have robots look like humans (walk like us for example).

What's the point? A Roomba doesn't have legs and yet it's better than me at vacuum cleaning (meaning, we both suck, but I suck more).

We wouldn't want pliers to be shaped like a hand; computers are pliers for the brain: they extend it, but they don't need to be shaped like it.