Machines don’t need to do things the same way the natural world does in order to be useful, or to surpass nature. This is obvious from millennia of physical technology and it applies to software and artificially intelligent machines as well. Airplanes don’t flap their wings and helicopters don’t need wings at all. The wheel doesn’t exist in nature, but it has served us very well. So why should computer brains work like human brains in order to achieve results? As is so often the case in the crossroads of human and machine thinking, chess proved to be an ideal laboratory for investigating this
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