How significant is the AlphaGo victory for AI and technology in general? How generalizable is the success in this one use case?

Even though it can't be widely generalized, it's still a very big deal. To put Google's AlphaGo win in perspective, let's consider the other two major victories of machines over humans in recent com... This is because AlphaGo displayed true cognition. Keep in mind we're not talking about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) but it is Artificial Special Intelligence (ASI). Fairly significant, but not nearly as significant as presented in the press.