the thing about computers beating humans at chess is that chess is an extremely easy game to program a computer to play it’s culturally prestigious as a symbol of inteligence but it’s difficult in ways that noticing things and plotting out potential outcomes are the hard parts and those are far easier for a computer

it’s like being alarmed that a computer is capable of adding and storing large numbers better than a person

I get the vibe from a lot of these “my tech startup/cult is gonna stop AM/Skynet/SHODAN” types is the same as Theresa May trying to ban “encryption”. They know enough about the pop culture around computers to know these words but not enough to know what they mean.