The author undersells himself - AlphaGo basically searches the game tree the same way he describes of GOFAI. Monte Carlo Tree Search is old yet essential. The n

The author undersells himself - AlphaGo basically searches the game tree the same way he describes of GOFAI. Monte Carlo Tree Search is old yet essential. The neural network mainly improves the game evaluation heuristic, using function approximation which I'm sure the author is familiar with. Modern AI abilities are mind boggling but they're not that complicated to understand, especially with a GOFAI background!