The same statement holds for humans too. I don't think you can teach a person how to play Go and expect him/her to learn anything else than how to play Go.
I'm not talking about learning the rules of the game. You don't need an AI to
model the rules of the game. You need an AI to model the winning strategy.
Winning strategy is what humans generalise to other domains and computers don't.
There's a lot that suggests that humans and
machine learning algorithms learn in very different ways. For instance, by the time a human
can master a game like Go they can also perform image processing, speech
recognition, handwriten digit recognition, word-sense disambiguation and other
similar cognitive tasks. Machine learning algorithms can only do one of those things at
a time. A system trained to do image processing might do it well, but it
won't be able to go from recognising images to recognising the senses of words
in a text without new training, and not without the new training clobbering the
previous training.
To make it perfectly clear: I'm talking about separate instances of possibly the same algorithm, trained
on a different task every time. I'm not saying that CNNs can't do speech recognition because
they're good at image processing. I'm saying that an instance of a CNN that's
learned to tag images must be trained on different data in a different time if
you also want it to do word-sense disambiguation.
And that that is a limitation, that stands in the way of machine learning
algorithms achieving general intelligence.
A human brain (or any other animal brain for that matter) is almost infinitely more advanced and computationally efficient than state of the art machine intelligence, even without taking things like thoughts, emotions and dreams - which we currently do not understand at all - into account.
It's a huge accomplishment for machines to be able to win over humans in games like chess and go and <insert game here>, but these are games originally designed for humans - by humans - to be played recreationally and I think we shouldn't read too much into it.
Didn't you see KarateKid: wax on, wax off. Jokes aside, as someone said before. The human mind is far better at generalizing and can reuse learned skills in different fields.
