I understand your larger point, but that&#x27;s just how news works: you report on the new stuff, not the old stuff. Humans beating computers at chess was old news when Deep Blue happened, so it wasn&#x27;t worth reporting when that happened. Nobody talks about computers beating humans at chess anymore, because that&#x27;s old news now. It would be (really big) news again if a human started beating the best chess computers again.<p>It is old news for humans to beat computers at Go, but the reverse is still new news.<p>I agree with you that people who infer an impending AI takeover of the world from computer success in specific games are just being silly.