On: AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol

[VikingCoder]

A neural network beating a top human at Go? Cripes, if Marvin Minsky didn't say it would never happen, I'd be stunned.

[phire → VikingCoder]

Technically, it's two neural networks, each calculating reasonably simple functions (an estimate of the value of a board position and an estimate of which moves might be good) combined with a tree search algorithm.