Is DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero Really A Scientific Breakthrough?

A section of ML researchers dubbed AlphaGo Zero as a significant research advancement in AI, even more important than Alpha Go since Alpha Go Zero learned without any data.

DeepMind AI Outperforms AlphaGo 100-0

AlphaGo Zero: Google DeepMind supercomputer learns 3,000 years of human knowledge in 40 days

DeepMind AI Outperforms AlphaGo 100-0

Why is Google's Go win such a big deal?

Google creates AI that can teach itself and 'isn't constrained by the limits of human knowledge', The Independent

Summary of the AlphaGo paper. I found DeepMind's AlphaGo paper quite…, by gwk

DeepMind computer teaches itself to become world's best Go player

Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search

DeepMind's latest AI breakthrough is its most significant yet

DeepMind's quest for AGI may not be successful, say AI researchers

AlphaGo, in context. Update Oct 18, 2017: AlphaGo Zero was…, by Andrej Karpathy

Potential Breakthrough in AI Development: Using AlphaGo Zero Technology for Large-Scale Model Training — Eightify

AlphaGo: its creator on the computer that learns by thinking, Artificial intelligence (AI)

DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero: Learns From Scratch Without Any Human Input