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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ralphbernardo on 2024-12-09 23:55:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1965, philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus, a staunch critic of artificial intelligence, boldly claimed that a machine would never beat a human at the game of chess. It would only be two years before the outspoken scholar was himself checkmated by an MIT-developed computer.