Chess is not really an AI problem in a way - the way the computers play isn't enormously useful outside chess (I'm sure I'll get into trouble for that generalisation). The current computers can beat the vast majority of people, however, and if you think about it, that's all an autopilot has to do. The big chess computers are expensive but you can build another in a year or few months whereas how easy is it to find chess grand masters?
In areas to do with reasoning and vision and so on, I get the impression that computers are still far less competitive than they are at chess and go etc. But the ability is shooting up by leaps and bounds in certain specific situations so I think you can expect much more complicated weapons perhaps and ones that are much easier to use optimally.
Last edited by t43562; 1st Jul 2016 at 19:02.
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