I have since childhood felt chess a useless skill to learn given its cracking by AI automata. Why learn what at which a machine will always be superior?

And yet, now, to quote Bill Gates, intelligence is poised to become as common as water or electricity.

Perhaps, I overly invested my identity in my own natural talents of intellect.

Where do we go from here?

Do we quit “life” as 이세돌 quit the game of Go upon learning he would never achieve leverage against AlphaGo?

We are at a cross-roads.

Will humanity smoke its turn 37 cigarette for the auto-annihilation by technofeudalist overlords?

Or, will we rise up on turn 78 with a divine play to defeat the incoming ai-pocalypse?

Time will only tell.