Jianying Ji wrote on Wed, Jun 4, 2008 05:07 PM UTC:
Given enough time a well programmed computer will at least draw humans on
any finite game, that I certainly agree, but there still much utility in
creating games that at this point computers are woefully bad at. At this
moment at least computers think in many ways very differently than humans.
By throwing widely varying situations for computers to master, we develop a
fuller theory of cognition. I think humans should always strive to beat the
computer so as to improve both us and the computer.
It took over a decade to solve checkers completely, humans are not over at
abstract games yet.