Following its unbeaten run against the world’s greatest Go player, Google’s AlphaGo algorithm will retire with a near-perfect record. While many have tried to topple its reign, it leaves the game to ...

AlphaGo, the board-game-playing AI built by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary, just got a huge update, making it smarter — and potentially creepier — than ever before. In a paper published in Nature, the ...

Google's DeepMind lab has built an artificially intelligent program that taught itself to become one of the world's most dominant Go players. Google says the program, AlphaGo Zero, endowed itself with ...

AlphaGo is going out on top. After beating Ke Jie, the world’s best player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, for the third time today at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, Google’s DeepMind unit ...

Five years ago, Marc Andreesen famously said that “software is eating the world”, and, indeed, software-driven start-ups have boomed. AlphaGo’s 4-1 victory over Lee Sedol, a human champion in the game ...

Google’s AlphaGo made history last year by becoming the first machine to defeat a top-ranked human Go player. It was an important AI milestone, but AlphaGo isn’t getting off that easily. Next month, ...

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Ke Jie, left, lost his first game against the artificial intelligence program AlphaGo. In the first of several games being held in China this week, a revamped AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, a Chinese ...

DeepMind has said it has created the best Go player in the world because it was able to do away with human knowledge and start with a blank slate. AlphaGo Zero begins by playing "completely random" Go ...