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by littlestymaar 2983 days ago
> The same thing was said about early chess AIs and the Alpha GO project

Afaik, chess AI (I mean, modern ones like deep blue) had little to no wide impact on AI. They had a lot of impact on chess though.

But it's way easier to model a chessboard than a game like StarCraft, the domain specific work is just orders of magnitude bigger.

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> Afaik, chess AI (I mean, modern ones like deep blue) had little to no wide impact on AI.

Apart from the pure technical side (which I am no expert in so you might be right) the impact on public attention and awareness for AI was huge for those projects. It's important that "normal" people get a feeling for AIs and what they are able to accomplish.