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> Many boldly and confidently predicted we wouldn't see a computer beat the Go world champion in our lifetimes.

To add to that, in Godel Escher Bach, Hofstadter in 1979 predicted that no chess engine would ever beat a human grandmaster player. It just goes to show how hard it is to predict what is, and also will remain, impossible for machines!



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