Is DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero Really A Scientific Breakthrough?

A section of ML researchers dubbed AlphaGo Zero as a significant research advancement in AI, even more important than Alpha Go since Alpha Go Zero learned without any data.

DeepMind: From Games to Scientific Discovery: Research-Technology Management: Vol 64, No 6

These are technologies which can behave like geniuses in messy contexts.

AlphaGo Zero: Starting from scratch

Checkmate: how we mastered the AlphaZero cover, Science

DeepMind's David Silver on games, beauty, and AI's potential to avert human-made disasters - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Google DeepMind's AlphaGo: meet the U of T computer scientists who helped it win

Google DeepMind - A Decade of AI Dominance

From Zero to Master in Hours: AlphaZero Accelerates Reinforcement Learning

Google creates AI that can teach itself and 'isn't constrained by the limits of human knowledge', The Independent

It's able to create knowledge itself': Google unveils AI that learns on its own, Science

How DeepMind Made a Breakthrough with Deep Reinforcement Learning - Centific

Minigo: An Open-Source Python Implementation Inspired By DeepMind's AlphaGo

AlphaGo vs. You: Not a Fair Fight