Gary Marcus

no it is not innate for any person; only for machines like this one.

For this implementation. But Rubik's Cube solving can be learned by a neural network.

NN for solving the Rubik's Cube would be like killing a mosquito with an artillery bomb: not necessary at all.

Although not related to the OpenAI paper. Solving Rubik's Cube via Deep Learning shows that you can teach a system to learn how to solve the problem. That's a very different problem that programming the God algorithm.

Isn't that a trivial observation about sequences? More interesting is whether i) it is cost efficient, ii) the solution is generalisable, iii) whether we learn anything from the solution. You can dig a hole with sieve but is it the best tool?

Training a system to implement an algorithm on its own is a different problem than formulating a solution by hand. Now if a DL can discover the God solution, then that's a massive breakthrough.

Go a step back: when you already know the solution and the exact steps to get there (plus how to do it in a much simpler and straightforward way), you don't need #DeepLearning to figure it out.

You don't know how a cube is scrambled. That's not a given.