AlphaGo has come a long way since it became the first artificial intelligence to conquer the game of Go nearly two years ago, but creator DeepMind Technologies, Google LLC’s AI company, does not want ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue system defeated the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. At the time, the victory was widely described ...

The AlphaZero program developed by Google and DeepMind took four hours of playing against itself to create chess knowledge beyond any human or other computer program. It could beat any person and beat ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence ...

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 ...

Don’t challenge this algorithm to a board game. Because chances are it can learn to outsmart you inside a day. Earlier this year, we reported that Alphabet’s machine-learning subsidiary, DeepMind, had ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...

We can see from this that AlphaGo didn’t start out with a valuation system based on lots of detailed knowledge of Go, the way Deep Blue did for chess. Instead, by analyzing thousands of prior games ...