Go, a game where infinite variations emerge from the intersection of nineteen horizontal and vertical lines on the board, was once a symbol of humanity’s great intellectual prowess. Even after humans ...

Humanity is living through the transformation that Kasparov first confronted across a chessboard nearly three decades ago.

Google’s artificial intelligence program AlphaGo defeated South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol 4-1 in a five-game match in Seoul in 2016, marking a historic milestone in AI development. Developed by ...

With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and Go by repeatedly playing itself during ...

In March 2016, Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence system AlphaGo shocked the world. In a stunning five-match series of Go, the ancient Chinese board game, the AI beat the world’s best player, ...

AlphaGo and new multi-agent AI systems are generating strategies and norms beyond human design, forcing urgent decisions on control, accountability, and deployment in defense and airspace management.

Some of the flashiest achievements in artificial intelligence in the past decade have come from a technique by which the computer acts randomly from a set of choices and is rewarded or punished for ...