AlphaGo is not the solution to AI « Machine Learning (Theory)

Congratulations are in order for the folks at Google Deepmind who have mastered Go. However, some of the discussion around this seems like giddy overstatement. Wired says Machines have conquered the last games and Slashdot says We know now that we don't need any big new breakthroughs to get to true AI. The truth is nowhere close. For Go itself, it's been well-known for a decade that Monte Carlo tree search (i.e.