[JonathanFly]

>Sure, take some pot shots - some are valid criticisms - but OpenAI's Rubic's cube solver being lame does not mean AI needs to be re-evaluated.

There may be genuine criticisms of that particular project, but 'only the actual solving is done via symbolic methods' is a non-sequitur. The Rubik's cube is just a generic physical task that requires dexterity, they could have done the same research with dominoes or blocks or playing Tic-Tac-Toe with random pens in various adverse conditions -- the point wouldn't be that the ML solves or doesn't solve the actual Tic Tac Toe!