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 ...
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 ...
CNET

Google's AlphaGo Zero destroys humans all on its own

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

Google’s AlphaGo AI is now teaching itself how to be smarter than humans

AlphaGo, the board-game-playing AI built by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary, just got a huge update, making it smarter — and potentially creepier — than ever before. In a paper published in Nature, 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 ...
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 ...
VentureBeat

Here’s what AlphaGo’s historic win means for the enterprise

March 15, 2016 brought us a milestone in artificial intelligence 10 years earlier than experts expected: AlphaGo, the AI-based computer created by Google DeepMind, beat world champion Go player Lee ...
Ars Technica

Move over AlphaGo: AlphaZero taught itself to play three different games

DeepMind’s new AI is worthy successor to the first program to beat a human at Go. AlphaZero is a direct descendent of DeepMind’s AlphaGo, which made headlines worldwide in 2016 by defeating Lee Sedol, ...