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A More Perfect Human

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The Computer Won at Chess

"I want to see if a computer will ever be able to beat a world champion at the game go for which there are more board positions than atoms in the universe," he says. "It's a really exact and clear example of the so-called receding horizon where people really want to reserve something for ourselves that is not mechanizable." Kasparov's defeat marked a turning point: A computer had beaten a human at a game humans taught it to play. For scientists, it was a sign that maybe it was time to stop competing with machines and start collaborating with them.

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