To me, "creative" is not the right word. Maybe try "intuitive". As Radim says, of course, the intuition is only relevant when logic fails. However, no comput

To me, "creative" is not the right word. Maybe try "intuitive". As Radim says, of course, the intuition is only relevant when logic fails. However, no computer, including AlphaGo, has sufficient processing power to take the logic-only approach to the, uh, logical extreme (more board states than atoms in the universe, etc etc). So both humans and computers play by a combination of logic and intuition. Surely Lee Sedol must be incredibly good at both. Perhaps AlphaGo is better than Lee Sedol at the logic part (or perhaps not, but just suppose for the sake of argument). In this light, what is interesting is that AlphaGo is sufficiently good at intuition, a domain we might have considered uniquely human[0], to complement its ferocious logical power. [0] I find it foolish to consider anything uniquely human, but a humanist essentialist might make such a claim.