'In the next 10 years' is the key phrase here. Everyone watching Go (I looked at the problem 15-ish years ago) thought it required a massive advance to beat the

'In the next 10 years' is the key phrase here. Everyone watching Go (I looked at the problem 15-ish years ago) thought it required a massive advance to beat the best humans. DeepMind made that advance. 'bah, whatever, both Newton and Leibniz were hacks. Everyone knew calculus would have been invented anyway. It's basically a consequence of some stuff Archimedes did.'