Robots have fallen, but have not been completely vanquished, as they have learned to play soccer.

The chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was pitted against the computer Deep Blue. The Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter were challenged by the AI machine Watson. Deepmind was battling it out with the classic video game Atari, and Alpha Go was pitted against the professional Go player, Lee Sedol.