I think Chess is an easier thing to be defeated at by a machine because there is a clear winner and a clear loser.

Thinking, reading, interpreting and writing are skills which produce outputs that are not as simple as black wins, white loses.

You might like a text that a specific author writes much more than what GPT-4 may be able to produce. And you might have a different interpretation of a painting than GPT-4 has.

And no one can really say who is better and who is worse on that regard.