Thanks for writing this out - you're 100% right. A ton of the strength came from tree search. DCNN are strong but they do not beat professionals yet. They can g

Thanks for writing this out - you're 100% right. A ton of the strength came from tree search. DCNN are strong but they do not beat professionals yet. They can guide the tree search well, though. The paper about AlphaGo is really disappointing in some ways. Even Facebook's Go/AI research paper had more novel techniques in it. But 2 dudes fiddling at Facebook aren't going to beat a dedicated team of 20+ with a PR mission to fulfill...