I still flash back the chilly spring of 2016. Like millions of others, I sat fused to my screen, watching a black-and-white board game that's over 2,500 times old. The tourney was fabulous: Lee Sedol, the 18-time world champion of Go, against AlphaGo, a machine. At that time, numerous experts believed a computer could not master Go for another decade. But when AlphaGo played "Move 37"—a move so unorthodox that observers called it a mistake—I realized we were witnessing a new form of intelligence. This was a system that had "learned" how to win through Underpinning Literacy (Reinforcement Learning). Table of Contents 1. What's Underpinning Literacy? (The Mortal Perspective) 2. The Core of the Genius: The Price System Explained 3. The Architecture of Victory: Policy vs. Value Networks 4. AlphaGo Zero: The Power of Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate) 5. Particular Reflections: What AI Teaches Us About Growth 6. Conclusion: Navigating an AI-Stoked Unborn 1. What's Und...