2017: The year AI beat us at all our own games

For much of the 20th century, the game of chess served as a benchmark for artificial intelligence researchers. John McCarthy, who coined the term "artificial intelligence" back in the early 1950s, once referred to chess as the "Drosophila of AI", in a reference to how significant early research on the fruit fly was to the field of genetics.

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2017: The year AI beat us at all our own games

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