I'm not hearing Ke Jie saying computers understand Go. I'm hearing Ke Jie saying that machine enhancement of Go playing has shown there is very much more to the game of Go than we realized.
To me it is like the invention of the microscope and how it showed there was a whole world of microbes we didn't know about, but no one says microscopes understand microbes.
Microsocopes magnify images. That's only a small part of whay is interesting about microbes. Playing betters moves than anyone is a very interesting part of Go.
To me it is like the invention of the microscope and how it showed there was a whole world of microbes we didn't know about, but no one says microscopes understand microbes.