[masswerk]

> In the early days of artificial intelligence, the field was defined by a single goal: to build a machine that could think and behave like a human. (…) We can now build machines that can beat humans at specific tasks like playing chess or go, and we are starting to see machines that can learn to perform multiple tasks.

I'd say, "machine beats human in chess" doesn't mean what it was supposed to mean in Turing's days. Meaning, rather than being a proof of deep consideration, it has moved towards generalizing pattern recognition and library lookups. Rather than proving a point in (ad-hoc) decision making (Turing's "ban"), it's an application of data.

[fastball]

AlphaZero is not using "library lookups" to play chess.

[masswerk]

Well, Deep Blue did.

[fastball]

Sure, but the whole point of the article is about progress that is being made. You can't point at Deep Blue and ignore all the things that have happened in AI chess since then.

[masswerk]

This is why the sentence includes both: successful historical approaches and current approaches. Nevertheless, none of this is why it was once of interest.