> without belittling at all what it took to achieve this victory That's not really what it comes across as. Most posts like that reek of moving the goalpost.

> without belittling at all what it took to achieve this victory That's not really what it comes across as. Most posts like that reek of moving the goalpost. Also the efficiency goalpost is probably the easier problem. Advancement in processor designs, microarchitecture, and basic code optimization will get us there, not necessarily changing the techniques of AlphaGo. * 60 years ago ENIAC was room-sized and slow, now salesmen hand out branded solar calculators for free * As the article mentioned, deepblue was a massive computer with custom hardware, now your <1W phone can run stockfish. The achievement wasn't by the chess team, it was by Intel, ARM, compiler developers, etc.