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Alpha Go Takes the Match, 3-0 (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Google's AlphaGo has won the Deep Mind Challenge, by winning the third match in a row of five against the 18-time world champion Lee Se-dol. AlphaGo is now the number three Go player in the world and this is an event that will be remembered for a long time. Most AI experts thought that it would take decades to achieve but now we know that we have been on the right track since the 1980s or earlier. AlphaGo makes use of nothing dramatically new — it learned to play Go using a deep neural network and reinforcement learning, both developments on classical AI techniques. We know now that we don't need any big new breakthroughs to get to true AI. The results of the final two games are going to be interesting but as far as AI is concerned the match really is all over.
100% correct. We are no closer to AI than we ever were. There has been little progress in the last 40 years in that front. Given the slowing down exponential rate of the computation speed of digital computers we may not achieve it with digital computers using brute force methods.