According to popular press and marketing collateral human intelligence has been surpassed by machine (ie. “artificial”) intelligence as evidenced by machines “beating” humans at chess, Jeopardy, and Go.
Let’s explore these phenomena.
Deep Blue vs Kasparov
With regard to IBM’s Deep Blue beating Kasparov, in the first game on (Deep Blue’s) move 44 (dependent upon the source), either as 1) “as a result of a bug in which Deep Blue, unable to determine a desirable move, resorted to a fail-safe” move (random)., or 2) alternatively reporting was that when Deep Blue didn’t know what to do, it was just pick a random piece and move it. Regardless, if you’re a grand master, and you’re playing another grand master, and they do something totally bizarre, it rattles you. Kasparov went on to beat Blue that first game, and the IBM folks reprogrammed Blue that night to behave differently given similar/same condition. Kasparov gave up the second game (one of his assistants continued that game and ended IT in a draw). The next 3 were draws, and the final game was won by Blue (Kasparov was an emotional wreck by this point).