It was billed as a battle of man versus machine. Lee Sedol versus AlphaGo. Computers versus humanity. For seven days in 2016, the world's top player of an ancient board game battled a new kind of ...

Korean Go player Lee Sedol attends the press conference after a match against Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo on March 10, 2016 in Seoul, Korea. Kim Min-Hee-Pool/Getty Images ...

On the 37th move in the second of five games, AlphaGo unleashed a move no human would ever play, stunning experts and fans and utterly wrong-footing world champion Lee Sedol.

The AlphaGo AI agent that has beat Go world champions Lee Sedol and Ke Jie over the last 18 months has now been upgraded. Unlike the previous versions of AlphaGo, the new "AlphaGo Zero" AI learns ...

AlphaGo Zero is also set to give back to the community DeepMind's project has shaken up. New ideas from its predecessors like that jaw-dropping move against Lee Sedol have invigorated the game.