Very impressive work. When the neural nets for go paper came out a year ago I played around and implemented it (but never got good results), and was very inspir

Very impressive work. When the neural nets for go paper came out a year ago I played around and implemented it (but never got good results), and was very inspired by using neural networks for Go. As an amateur fan of the game, I was particularly intrigued by the neural network's more human-like understanding of the game (if you look at earlier layers, you see patterns that make sense to a Go player). That said, Fan Hui, who Google just beat, is a 2p player, which while incredibly strong is still far away from Lee Sedol or Gu Li. But given the pace of NN progress in recent years, and the incredible resources Google has been devoting to it, I wouldn't give them more than a decade or two.