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by MaxBarraclough 2404 days ago
This simply isn't true. We know your intuition here is mistaken, as we have plenty of counter-examples.

The best chess AIs can beat any human chess player. They use techniques that were never taught to them by a human.

Another example: a machine-learning-driven computer-vision system predicting the sex of a person based on an image of their iris. No human can do this. [0]

[0] Learning to predict gender from iris images (PDF) https://www3.nd.edu/~nchawla/papers/BTAS07.pdf