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 ...

Google's artificial intelligence program takes four out of five Go games against one of the world's top-ranked players. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo has beaten 18-time Go champion Lee Se-dol at the ancient Chinese game for the fourth and final time. It was a close game to close out the ...