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What he meant is that an AI built for playing chess cannot play checkers. The software for solving checkers is also equally useless in the context of chess.

The distinction here is that there is no general purpose AI in existence. All the surprising leaps have been customized for specific tasks.



Listening again in context you're 100% right! Disregard my previous comment.




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