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 ...

Google’s Go-playing artificial intelligence (AI) continues its winning streak at this week’s Future of Go Summit, happening in the historic town of Wuzhen, China. The AI ,developed by Google’s ...

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 ...

After Google-owned DeepMind’s virtual Go champion AlphaGo took on and defeated one of the top-ranked human players in the world, it looks like Google wants to build some bridges, explore the AI-human ...

In defeating Lee 4-1, DeepMind, the British startup acquired by Google in 2014 and developer of AlphaGo, achieved something that many computer scientists believed would be decades away. But the matter ...

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program won the last round in a five-game contest against top Go player Lee Se-dol, despite making a bad mistake during play. The 4-1 margin for ...

An algorithm developed by Google's sister company DeepMind is once again taking on human opponents in the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at ...

Are five human heads better than one computer brain? Not when it comes to playing Go. AlphaGo, the AI created to play the game of Go better than anyone alive, has defeated a team made up of five Go ...

The machine beat world champion Lee Sedol at Go, but computers still remain way behind humans at pretty much everything other than crunching data. Max writes about venture capitalism and startups ...

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-part ...

WUZHEN, CHINA ---Ke Jie, the number one Go player in the world, spent much of the game playing with the hair on his head. Time and again, he pinched the short strands between his thumb and index ...