&gt; comparing AlphaGo Distributed to, e.g. CrazyStone, is to compare two distinct states of the art – performance given small computational power (and a small team, for that matter) and performance given massive computational power and the efforts of over a dozen of the best AI researchers in the world.<p>I know the author probably doesn&#x27;t have any stake on it, but defending that the state of the art should be categorized by the size of the team of researchers behind each product sounds like just being butt-hurt. &quot;Look what this team accomplished with only two people&quot; only compares the researchers, not the end results.