content: Not that I agree with your comment on chess, but it's even better than you might think. Like I mentioned after the first round, DeepMind is not a  "Go AI" per se. Google's Deep Mind is a generic deep learning system capable of taking on any quantifiable task. This is the same AI that was recently reported to have taught itself how to play a variety of atari video games, many to super human levels. It does this all through deep learning systems - in the video game example it had 0 information about the game aside from the pixels on the screen and its score. It was not told what buttons do what, the goal of the game, what a square means or anything. As mentioned in the other post, this patent from Google is worth checking out. I always thought that patent -particularly the phrasing of its abstract- was one half puffery and one half over optimism, but I think things may be progressing far faster than anybody on the 'outside' realizes.