I am not gonna underestimate AI. I think we do so at our peril.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/07/alphazero-google-deepmind-ai-beats-champion-program-teaching-itself-to-play-four-hours
You will see they had to teach the computer the rules of the game. Without initial input it is difficult for a computer to really “learn”