The future may indeed bring forth artificial intelligence. However, along the way we must be careful not to see in machines qualities that are not there. The most profound error would not be to mistakenly see intelligence in machines that is not there. The most profound error would be to accept a mechanistic model of problem solving as a description of human intelligence. The real danger is not the elevation of machines beyond what they are, but the debasement of humanity to nothing more than organic computational devices.
People are more than chess players.