Fan Hui makes a living by playing Go, a Chinese board game that dates back over 2,500 years with more moves possible than there are atoms in the universe. The objective of Go is simple: to surround ...
Fan Hui, the European Go champion, needed some fresh air. “I don’t understand myself anymore.” Hui was the first professional Go player to face AlphaGo, Google’s artificial intelligence system and the ...
Sorry, human Go players, Google's AlphaGo AI is just out of your league right now. At the Future of Go Summit event, held in Wuzhen, China from May 23-27, AlphaGo has ...
European Go champion Fan Hui holds his head in frustration during a match against Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program. (Credit: Google via YouTube) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Both sides in next month’s big $1 ...
Choong-am Dojang is far from a typical Korean school. Its best pupils will never study history or math, nor will they receive traditional high-school diplomas. The academy, which operates above a ...
When IBM’s Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov back in 1997, the world was agog over AI’s potential. This week, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo system will face an even tougher test in a series of ...
Google made artificial intelligence history when its AI system AlphaGo won a Go tournament against a professional player. Go is an incredibly complicated game with more than 300 times the number of ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a senior news producer for Forbes' technology channel. It was first reported on Wednesday in Nature that the artificial ...