ZDNet

DeepMind AlphaGo Zero learns on its own without meatbag intervention

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 ...
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 ...
CNET

'AlphaGo': Go ringside for the time AI beat the world's best

The director of gripping documentary "AlphaGo" takes you inside the historic showdown between man and AI -- when even its creators didn't understand what it was doing. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film ...
Los Angeles Times

Four takeaways from AlphaGo’s victory over a world champion Go player

With a decisive victory over a world champion Go player, a computer program not only mastered what may be the world's most complex board game, it also changed the scope of future AI research. Google ...
Wired

This More Powerful Version of AlphaGo Learns On Its Own

At one point during his historic defeat to the software AlphaGo last year, world champion Go player Lee Sedol abruptly left the room. The bot had played a move that confounded established theories of ...
CNET

AlphaGo wins a close one to wrap up battle of man vs. machine

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 ...
ZDNet

AlphaGo defeats South Korean Go champion in landmark AI match

AlphaGo has defeated South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol in the first match of the landmark games between man and artificial intelligence (AI). It was the first match out of a total of five between ...
Los Angeles Times

Computer program emerges victorious in five-game match against Go champion

Reporting from Seoul — A computer program ended its five-game match against the world’s top-ranked Go player with another win Tuesday, sealing a landmark achievement for artificial intelligence. The ...
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 ...
TechCrunch

Google’s AlphaGo AI wins three-match series against the world’s best Go player

Google’s AlphaGo AI has once again made the case that machines are now smarter than man — when it comes to games of strategy, at least. AlphaGo made its name last year when it defeated high-profile Go ...
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 ...