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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2018 Septemberthaniri

About Tencent's AI winning over 90 percent of StarCraft II games.

For anyone who actually plays SC2, or any real time game where human speed is a limitation, it should not be surprising that AI would crush human opponents.

This video demonstrates why:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs

AI has crushed humans in Go, the most complicated (widely played) board game. I'll be impressed again by AI when it beats us in physical sport.

An AI beats humans in a physical sport.

Has this happened?

Yes 22 (18%)Not sure 23 (19%)No 77 (63%)

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