The scariest point is that AlphaZero showed insight. It played like no computer ever has, intuitively and beautifully, with a romantic, attacking style. It played gambits and took risks. In some games it paralyzed Stockfish and toyed with it. It seemed malevolent and sadistic. And it was creative beyond words, playing moves no grandmaster or computer would ever dream of making. It had the spirit of a human and the power of a machine. It was humankind’s first glimpse of a terrifying new kind of intelligence.
