Merged Artificial Intelligence

[Ziggurat]

I believe your assertion about steps 3 - 5 is incorrect.

Your quote (source?) seems to back me up.

For 3: 'It was given a neural network with a "value head".'

For 4: 'It was programmed with a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm.'

For 5: 'During an actual game, AlphaZero combines its calculation (MCTS) and its intuition (the neural network).'

Sounds to me like this is exactly what I described: it was programmed how to figure out these steps, by giving it a neural network, an MCTS algorithm, and the instruction to combine them. These parts were programmed in.