There's an interesting angle to this phrase "intelligent species opening up a new way of looking at the world", which is that we (humans) designed go as a game

There's an interesting angle to this phrase "intelligent species opening up a new way of looking at the world", which is that we (humans) designed go as a game - a subset of the real world we interact with. Go is "reality" to alphago. The superset of all possible sense data it could have, in principle. Whatever "chunks" AlphaGo uses, if it does use them, all of its policies are built only from subsets of the sense data that is the interactions (self-plays) and inferences from past games. There's nothing outside the game to bring into its decision process. With humans, however, our policies are noisy and are rife with what, for lack of a better term, I would call leaky abstractions.