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.

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

DeepMind AI Outperforms AlphaGo 100-0

From Zero to Master in Hours: AlphaZero Accelerates Reinforcement Learning

MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules - Google DeepMind

The AI buster-buster: new machine dominates AI that dominated humans at Go

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

Go to Zero - DeepMind: The Podcast (S1, Ep2)

Google's AlphaGo AI no longer requires human input to master Go

In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go