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Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch by eutectic on Thursday October 19, 2017 @07:20AM (#15506941)
I remember seeing a demonstration by a deep learning guy of a commercially available robot cleaning a house under remote control. You are seriously underestimating the difficulty of developing software to solve these problems in an integrated way.
Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch by shhbrunette on Thursday October 19, 2017 @07:36PM (#15512454)
This. It is a lot like the business guy thinking it is trivial to program a 'SaaS business' because he has a high level idea in his mind. Like all things programming the devil is in the detail.
Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch by letlambda on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:41PM (#15520041)
The hardware is certainly good enough to assist a person with a disability living in a ranch house with typical household tasks. As demonstrated by human in the loop operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQckUlXPRVk