This is not unsurprising - Hikaru Nakamura in the chess world is well known for beating chess computers while doing funny things, entirely based on analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the bot.
Those are weak bots though. Hikaru can't beat the strongest bots (nor can Magnus nor anyone else), he has videos on YouTube of him playing Stockfish and Komodo on the strongest settings.
That is true, but I do think that the bots he beats regularly tend to be rated much higher than he is (which would not happen with a human). Go bots have had less time to mature, so we will eventually have unbeatable ones, but I guess not yet.
so we will eventually have unbeatable ones, but I guess not yet.
While I believe it's true these things might become practically unbeatable. I also am getting the feeling we've put god like faith in these systems when ultimately, we find they may have critical flaws and weaknesses like all to almost all other things.
Of course we're at the point where everything still seems like magic.
Do you have a source for this? I've seen content around GMs finding stronghold-style setups that the AI cannot find a way out of, and theoretically getting to repeated move / 50 moves without capture draw scenarios. But I'm not aware of any examples of Hikaru or anyone actually winning against the best computers (eg modern Stockfish) on even footing
