AlphaGo: Did DeepMind Just Solve Intelligence?!

Just recently, DeepMind's AlphaGo won a series of Go matches against a top-level human opponent. This victory has caused a mix of excitement and consternation. Are we seeing another case of a bigger and faster machine pushing the edge of performance, or are we perhaps approaching a fundamental crisis of "cognitive competition?" To answer this questions, we look at the succession of game-playing computers, and then explore the rise of "model-free methods" and what it foretells for our future. We have become used to the idea that purpose-built machines can surpass humans in almost any physical task.