I went to a talk given by computer experts on the game of Go about 10 years before AlphaGo and the consensus was that the solution space was so large[0] that it

I went to a talk given by computer experts on the game of Go about 10 years before AlphaGo and the consensus was that the solution space was so large[0] that it was impossible to solve by a computer, whatever its capability, in the foreseeable future, by the methods known at the time. We now know that AlphaGo followed a somewhat new approach, but I don't remember that being obvious or expected back then... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_and_mathematics#Game_tree_complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_and_mathematics#Game_tree_c...