People still haven't completely worked through the fact that Moore's Law has died. I think the anger phase was the late 2000's, when quantum computing, etc. was trotted out to denounce anyone noticing the slowdown.
This looks like bargaining to me.
This looks like bargaining to me.
"Whenever Moore's law is no longer applicable, its definition is changed to accommodate some new version of 'computers get faster'."
Moore's Law was dead a long long time ago.
AlphaGo requires huge amount of energy and CPU power to accomplish what human brain does in 20W, just using a smallish portion of its capabilities. There must be a plenty of undiscovered architectural improvements to computers that can still kick the Moore Law for a couple years.
[As an aside, I had thought that Moore's law was originally transistor density, and the hype machine spun it into performance. But like I said, Moore's law is doomed regardless, so whatever.]