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 ...

At one point during his historic defeat to the software AlphaGo last year, world champion Go player Lee Sedol abruptly left the room. The bot had played a move that confounded established theories of ...

The new artificial neural network taught itself to master the ancient game Go within weeks, without any tips from humans. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100 ...

Earlier this year the AlphaGo artificial intelligence program ended humanity’s 2,500 years of supremacy at the board game go. Not content with its 3–0 victory over the world’s top player, AlphaGo ...

“The results are stunning,” says Jonathan Schaeffer, a computer scientist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, who wasn’t involved in the work. “We’re talking about a revolutionary change ...

Don’t challenge this algorithm to a board game. Because chances are it can learn to outsmart you inside a day. Earlier this year, we reported that Alphabet’s machine-learning subsidiary, DeepMind, had ...