DeepMind has surpassed the human mind on the Go board. Watson has crushed America's trivia gods on Jeopardy. But ask DeepMind to play Monopoly or Watson to play Family Feud, and they won't even know where to start. Because these artificial intelligence engines weren't specifically designed to play these games and aren't smart enough to figure them out by themselves, they'll give nonsensical answers. They'll struggle greatly, and humans will outperform them—by a lot.
If these machines are so smart, why do they fail at things that everyday people, let alone genius-level strategists, take for granted?
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