AlphaGo’s search made Move 37 possible; today’s AI lacks it
Today’s AI lacks the deliberative search that let AlphaGo find Move 37, a warning for anyone treating fluent model output as trustworthy reasoning. AlphaGo paired a policy network that suggested plausible moves with search machinery that built thousands of possible futures and tested their consequences. The essay argues that future systems need this kind of genuine reasoning to produce trustworthy, novel insights in science and medicine.