Don&#x27;t think many have said it here, so just fyi, to me this does not seem like a big &#x27;breakthrough&#x27; in AI so much as a good demonstration of smartly combining existing current ideas. Quoting from a developer of a monte-carlo tree based GO bot (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;huge-leap-forward-computer-mimics-human-brain-beats-professional-game-go" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;huge-leap-forward-com...</a>):
&quot;Coulom agrees, but he notes that there isn&#x27;t one key new invention that makes the whole program work. &quot;It&#x27;s more like a great engineering achievement,&quot; he says. &quot;The way they put all the pieces together is really innovative.&quot;&quot;<p>Not to disparage the result, but just saying it seems inline with the progress in recent years of using deep neural nets for reinforcement learning with games.