About whether AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol is a step toward general-purpose AI.
Has this happened?
Yes 39 (33%)Not sure 31 (26%)No 48 (41%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol is a step toward general-purpose AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
...the overall structure of the algorithm - MCTS, deep neural nets, reinforcement learning - is very general.
It is general in the sense that humans can apply those algorithms to different problems (and have been doing so for decades). It isn't general in the sense that we can't apply AlphaGo to other problems unmodified. AlphaGo can't even play chess badly. It is not really even a step toward strong AI. (Note that "strong AI" is a term with a specific meaning. [1])
The other is that what you asked for is completely unreasonable.
That's tantamount to saying strong AI is unreasonable.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI