Google's researchers used a "reinforcement learning" scheme to make AlphaGo Zero intelligent enough to learn on its own. Using a deep neural network — which is an artificial model of how human ...

Prior to today's matches, AlphaGo also dueled with the world's top Go player Ke Jie for a second time. But, just like Tuesday's first match, Google's AI proved to be a better match than humanity's ...

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.

Google's new artificial intelligence can defeat both humans and other AIs. Fortunately, the only battlefield where it fights and wins is the ancient board game Go. AlphaGo Zero, developed by ...

This week, the matter will be settled once and for all. Ke Jie and AlphaGo will face off in a three-game match in Wuzhen, China, as part of the Future of Go Summit being held by Google.

In the latest round of man versus machine, machine has come out on top. Google's AlphaGo beat Go world champion Ke Jie for a second time in as many days, taking an unassailable lead in the three ...

How Google's AlphaGo Imitates Human Intuition The computer’s defeat of one of the world’s greatest Go players speaks to the potential for artificial-intelligence systems with real instincts.

Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, left, shakes hands with Go champion Lee Sedol after DeepMind's AlphaGo player beat Sedol 4-1 in Korea in March 2016.

Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program has beaten Go champion Lee Sedol in its second of five matches. The game started at 1pm Seoul, South Korea-time on Thursday, March 10th.

AlphaGo—which was created by DeepMind, Google’s AI division—is apparently “getting better,” according to one commentator, which says a lot, considering it was already pretty damn good.

Google's AlphaGo isn't taking over the world, yet The machine beat world champion Lee Sedol at Go, but computers still remain way behind humans at pretty much everything other than crunching data.