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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wired

What AlphaGo Can Teach Us About How People Learn - WIRED

David Silver is responsible for several eye-catching demonstrations of artificial intelligence in recent years, working on advances that helped revive interest in the field after the last great AI ...
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 ...
CNBC

Why the buzz around DeepMind is dissipating as it transitions from games to science

DeepMind shot to fame in 2016 when it built a computer program called AlphaGo that learned how to play the board game Go and became better than any human. The London AI lab, which is owned by Alphabet ...
The Next Web

AlphaGo’s victory means the world is about to change

This weekend, the world’s greatest Go player beat Google’s AlphaGo, an AI program developed by Google’s DeepMind unit. Lee Se-Dol, the 33-year-old South Korean has been pitted against a machine in a ...
Mashable

Is the AlphaGo AI the best in the world? We're about to find out.

South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol reviews the match after winning against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo. Credit: Lee Jin-man/AP/REX ...

How DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis ushered in the dizzying rise of AI superintelligence

It was March 2016, and more than 200 million people around the world were watching a battle 2,500 years in the making. At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Lee Sedol — one of the greatest players of Go ...
InfoWorld

Reinforcement learning explained

Reinforcement learning uses rewards and penalties to teach computers how to play games and robots how to perform tasks independently You have probably heard about Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program, ...