Both. AlphaGo is a major engineering achievement in itself, and a pretty significant step in the empirical science of reinforcement-learning systems.
Does that interpretion suggest that the model of science first producing theories/concepts/explanations/recipes and engineering then using them is falsified?
theories/concepts/explanations/recipes
Not strictly. It could very well be that
there is parallelism (think technology graphs from games)
that science feeds of from intermediate technological results
Both. AlphaGo is a major engineering achievement in itself, and a pretty significant step in the empirical science of reinforcement-learning systems.
Does that interpretion suggest that the model of science first producing
theories/concepts/explanations/recipesand engineering then using them is falsified?Not strictly. It could very well be that
there is parallelism (think technology graphs from games)
that science feeds of from intermediate technological results