A Game Plan for the AI Boom

AlphaGo’s 2016 win over human Go champions showed the power of policy-value networks and self-play reinforcement learning.

Those ideas later influenced reasoning-focused AI systems at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.

Modern chatbots now use similar self-improvement and evaluation methods to tackle harder code, math, and science tasks.

AlphaGo became more than a game-playing system — it helped set the template for today’s AI boom.