The Solution to AI, What Real Researchers Do, and Expectations for CS Classrooms

Congratulations are in order for the folks at Google Deepmind (https://deepmind.com) who have mastered Go (https://deepmind.com/alpha-go.html). However, some of the discussion around this seems like giddy overstatement. Wired says, "machines have conquered the last games" (http://bit.ly/200O5zG) The truth is nowhere close. For Go itself, it has been well known for a decade that Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS, http://bit.ly/1YbLm4M; that is, valuation by assuming randomized playout) is unusually effective in Go.