Is it overstating to say that AI is on a par with the invention of fire, electricity, flight, or the Internet in its ability to transform our lives?

Well, they get knocked down, but they get up again. You are never gonna keep them down. Checkmated yes, down, no.

Unless you play Chess. Then it has rendered your whole devotion to shoving carved bits of wood about sixty-four squares in a very skillful way utterly pointless. No honestly. Not even Carlsen (2830) could beat a top chess machine at full whack. I can’t beat one running at half steam.

So for the Chess and Go boys, it certainly has transformed their lives, yes. From being feted kings, they now sit in the back of the tavern, drinking a whisky drink, drinking a vodka drink, drinking a lager drink, drinking a cider drink, and singing songs that remind them of the good times, singing songs that remind them of the better times (oh Zugzwang ploy, Zugzwang ploy).

What is the central theme of the entire Bible in one word (if possible)?

I blame the EU. Ursula von der Linesearch.

Yes.

But for the rest of us, bugger all important, really. In fact where AI has been deployed it’s generally made things worse as it’s just as stupid as people but much, much quicker at being completely boneheaded.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

You Go players were pissing your pants laughing at the chess boys, weren’t you? “Ultimate test of cerebral fitness my arse” you were saying, weren’t you? Until somebody had the bright idea of using a Monte Carlo Tree and then pairing it up with deep learning to kick your cock-of-the-walk squarely in his knackers in 2017.