&gt; If some new chess player have beat Deep Blue 4 to 2, would we revert the perceived status of AI to what it was before that match with Kasparov?<p>Not saying I disagree with much of your comment, but I think the answer to that question is actually, &quot;yes&quot;. As a middling chess player, I think it would have been impossible for &quot;a new chess player&quot; to have beaten Deep Blue 4 to 2, and these days, it requires near-best-in-the-world prowess to pick up any games at all off the best chess computers, which I think proves that it wasn&#x27;t hype-y or unfair to claim that the machines have beaten us at this.