A.I.

[ppppenguin]

These developments are very clever, but games are typically between a small number of players with very clearly defined rules. For chess and go, they are also games with perfect information; there is nothing hidden. Bridge and poker are more interesting because there is incomplete information. I think that machines have made significant advances in poker.

As for curing the common cold or creating world peace, machines are nowhere near as good as humans. Not that humans are very good at these things either.