[meric]

>> It would be an incredible coincidence that, at the end of six months of training, the computer happened to be of comparable skill to humans.

I don't think it's that incredible - By 18 years old a significant proportion of high school students know more about chemistry than the best scientists up to 1800 did, combined.

There's a lot of human games for AlphaGo to look at, but if it is to exceed human level of play, it'll have to figure how to do that by itself. Look at human level games, learn to play human level.

It's quick to get to the edge of human knowledge, and slower to go beyond it.