> That humans can make sufficiently strong calculators has never been a dispute in my mind.

Within our lifetimes (unless you're quite young) it was doubtful if a go ai would ever beat a decent human. Same was true for chess a generation or two earlier. It's news because it's the handoff of man to machine being the best at a particular thing.

This current news is news from the other way, this human did _exceptionally_ well.