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> If you aren't good at playing the game of go and a program beats you giving you nine handicap stones, probably the program is good at it. Many similar examples

This doesn't follow at all, maybe you just really suck.

It is entirely possible that a game AI that you find impossible to beat is trivial to beat for almost anyone with more experience than you have

Yes, there are chess engines that can beat the best chess players

However, most people couldn't possibly tell the difference between playing against the best chess engine in the world or a novice difficulty chess AI, because most people suck at chess

"It is better than I am" is a terrible metric to use to judge when you suck at that thing




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