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ned out to be illusory. When Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, the most 20 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016823 powerful room-cleaning robot was a Roomba, which moved around vacuuming at random and squeaked when it got caught under the couch. Technological prediction is particularly chancy, given that

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