Comment by denim_chicken

It feels really weird to see someone being showered with congratulations for beating a computer program. What exactly is he being congratulated for? For probably triggering and then capitalizing on a bug in AlphaGo's AI? For showing that human resolve, perseverance and a "fighting spirit" can trump a flawed AI, at least until the AI gets fixed? For giving DeepMind extremely valuable test data that will only accelerate the refinement of AlphaGo's AI? For helping to advance an amoral field of study that can potentially delegitimize everything that currently makes humans unique and extraordinary?