it rather depends on what you think AI is all about and what you want to achieve.
there are two kinds of people in the world: those who are curious, and those who just want to make yet another cloned ticky-tacky mousetrap so they can compete on the Go playing-field because they're no good at football or kung-fu or [rest left unsaid]. If you want to write a go-playing program in a hurry, don't waste your time talking to me; just do what most others do and just follow/copy Mogo/Crazy Stone, possibly adding a tweak or two of your own, and stick your "look ma, no hands" robot on a server with all the others. If instead you would like to participate in a project to build a Go program that uses hierarchical planning and reasoning, you can talk to me. You could start by googling me and reading my papers and the papers of others that reference mine. And the ones that don't. Start with De Groot's seminal book entitled "Thought and Choice in Chess". Then read everything Herbert Simon has ever written. And Minsky, and and and. Please be aware that i envisage it would take dozens of programmers dozens of years for what i have in mind to get anywhere. At 66, i won't live long enough to see it happen. And even after all that effort, although a program can be written that would be able to tell you what it is thinking in a way that makes sense to people, it probably wouldn't perform at shodan level, let alone be as strong as Zen19, let alone a future "Son of Big Blue + Watson", which would probably use simple pattern-matching database search + MCTS blind random search and/or CNN or, more likely, a novel variant/synthesis of them on a massively parallel computer. Zen19's authors tell me it improved its performance an entire rank by shifting from a single processor to 4 processors on a 1Gb Ethernet. Watson has about 30,000 processors on a 100Gb Ethernet i think. Whichever route you try, you are unlikely to get anywhere non-trivial doing it on your own, unless you are a Mozart of the keyboard and had produced impressive programs by the age of 8 years old. After you reach the ripe old age of 19, your brain basically stops growing except for a few neurons in your neocortex to stop you doing thoughtless teenage things; apart from that, your learning curve is downhill from then on...
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