&gt; Now let&#x27;s take another activity that humans should be good at: game-playing.<p>It should be just the opposite. There was no evolutionary pressure on humans to make them play Chess well. The games are interesting to us partly because they&#x27;re challenging and make us think differently.<p>If you want a fair comparison, you need to look at how successful we&#x27;ve been at making machines to do things animals <i>were</i> facing evolutionary pressure to do successfully.<p>Imagine trying to build an ant. A machine with a tiny, power efficient brain, that coordinates with its fellows to gather resources and build enormous hives. Could we make computers do that? Maybe eventually, but we&#x27;re nowhere close today. Just making a machine walk with grace is at the edge of what we can do.