Ahhh; I was not reading carefully enough. You are right.
I was, for whatever silly reason, reading “current AI boom” as “current AI methods”; AlphaGo was a neural network model, very close to what we do for LLMs, genAI, etc. My impression was that before NN’s, we had a good lead over computers.
Alpha go won 4 to 1 in 2016. Might have passed you by or it seems closer in time but ten years was spot on.
Ahhh; I was not reading carefully enough. You are right.
I was, for whatever silly reason, reading “current AI boom” as “current AI methods”; AlphaGo was a neural network model, very close to what we do for LLMs, genAI, etc. My impression was that before NN’s, we had a good lead over computers.