The proof of the pudding will be in the applications that come from this specific line of research. What is "this specific line of research" though? Monte Car

The proof of the pudding will be in the applications that come from this specific line of research. What is "this specific line of research" though? Monte Carlo simulations with tree search? This is a bit tricky because simulation the playout requires a "fixed" world or something that can be simplified to it. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks? Those are very broadly applicable, most famously in image recognition, in fact one reason why Google and Facebook were on this is because they are probably using them a ton...