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by nl 2197 days ago
This is... wrong?

Scratching a face is a matter of fine motor control. [1] is an example from 2011 which did this, as well as face shaving.

Walking is slightly tricky because it's such a dynamic system, but is now human level[2], and there was never really any question that it would be possible.

On the other hand, the state of the art in Go systems before Alpha Go (the one trained off games, not Alpha Zero) couldn't beat competent amateurs. No one had really considered the learn-from-zero-knowledge approach of Alpha Zero even for easier games like chess.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2011-07-14-robots-for-humanity-help...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E