[Obi_Juan_Kenobi]

The point isn't that the AI won't improve or win with those conditions; I agree it likely will, and soon. The point is that the conditions of the match matter and that this one missed the mark.

It absolutely does matter whether the AI can use obviously super-human techniques, because then it's not nearly as interesting for human observers. I'd much rather watch an AI that was a strategic genius that won despite being hamstrung in terms of micro/techniques.

> There's no reason whatsoever to suppose that humans are fundamentally better at this game than an AI can be.

Who's claiming this?