Re: FFS, it isn't AI ...
"read the rules of a game it has never seen before, understand those rules well enough to play against itself to learn, and then beat a human player with equivalent experience to its training "
I think that simply "read the rules of a game it has never seen before (and) understand those rules well enough to play against (anyone)" would already meet the definition of a general-purpose AI, that is a few orders of magnitude beyond current capability.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
