PC World

Google’s AlphaGo AI program strong but not perfect, says defeated South Korean Go player

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program has beaten South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol with three consecutive wins in a five-game tournament. “I kind of felt powerless,” said Lee after ...
PC World

AlphaGo’s unusual moves prove its AI prowess, experts say

Playing against a top Go player, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program has puzzled commentators with moves that are often described as “beautiful,” but do not fit into the usual ...
Mashable

Google's AlphaGo Zero taught itself to become the greatest Go player in history

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 ...
VentureBeat

AlphaGo Teach coaches people to play Go like Google DeepMind’s AI

Google’s DeepMind subsidiary released a tool that’s designed to help people learn to play Go like its superhuman AlphaGo program. The system, called AlphaGo Teach, lets users click through the opening ...
Science News

The newest AlphaGo mastered the game with no human input

“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 ...
Wired

Tencent Software Beats Go Champ, Showing China's AI Gains

In March 2016, Alphabet’s DeepMind research group set a milestone in artificial intelligence when its AlphaGo program defeated professional Go player Lee Sedol, then fifth-ranked in the world, at the ...
Mashable

After getting crushed by Google's AlphaGo, humanity's top Go player will try to beat Chinese AI

The World's top human player Ke Jie competes against Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in May 2017. Credit: VCG via Getty Images Google's AI program AlphaGo whipped the world's top ...
Computerworld

AI player AlphaGo to play Chinese Go champion

DeepMind’s AlphaGo program will test its artificial intelligence capabilities in May against top Go player Ke Jie. The match of three games in Wuzhen, China between AlphaGo and the Chinese player ...
MIT Technology Review

A Stronger AlphaGo Defeats the World’s Number One Player

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 ...
Engadget

Google's AlphaGo AI no longer requires human input to master Go

Google's AlphaGo already beat us puny humans to become the best at the Chinese board game of Go. Now, it's done with humans altogether. DeepMind, the Alphabet subsidiary behind the artificial ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘AlphaGo’: Film Review

Documentarian Greg Kohs follows the team of programmers trying to build an algorithm for the world's most complicated game in 'AlphaGo.' By THR Staff One more milestone in humanity’s path to a ...