Nitpicking. It is an analogy. The author said nothing of whether an AI could actually build a car. That's not the point of an analogy. Some of the most renowned

Nitpicking. It is an analogy. The author said nothing of whether an AI could actually build a car. That's not the point of an analogy. Some of the most renowned physicists use balloons and balls to describe space-time, but space isn't a balloon - does that make their layman explanation bad? > rules of chess Just like "AlphaEngine" would have the rules of reality: physics. > several orders of magnitude Sharpshooting. Go (the other game that it plays) has more positions than there are atoms in the universe. Not having to evaluate every position is precisely the improvement that AlphaGo brings to the table. For the record I don't think that AlphaGo could build a car and, even if it somehow could, the universe would likely experience heat death before it arrived at a workable solution.