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 ...

God moves the player, he in turn, the piece. But what god beyond God begins the round of dust and time and sleep and agonies? —Jorge Luis Borges, from “Chess,” 1960 The victory in March of the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A documentary about DeepMind’s AlphaGo program shows champion Go player Lee Se-dol challenging his AI nemesis, posing questions for the rest of us A documentary about DeepMind’s AlphaGo program shows ...

A Google computer program again defeated its human opponent in a final match of the ancient Chinese board game "Go," sealing its 4-1 victory Tuesday. The week-long showdown between South Korean Go ...

In the first of a series of games pitting Google's AI computer against a human world champion in the ancient game of Go, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program has narrowly taken Round 1 from Lee Sedol.