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 ...
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

After destroying humans, Google's AlphaGo hangs up its Go gloves

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 ...
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

AlphaGo wins a close one to wrap up battle of man vs. machine

Google's artificial intelligence program takes four out of five Go games against one of the world's top-ranked players. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Four takeaways from AlphaGo’s victory over a world champion Go player

With a decisive victory over a world champion Go player, a computer program not only mastered what may be the world's most complex board game, it also changed the scope of future AI research. Google ...
TechCrunch

Google AI beats Go world champion again to complete historic 4-1 series victory

The battle between Google’s artificial intelligence and Go world champion Lee Sedol concluded today after the former (AlphaGo) triumphed to win the five-game series 4-1. AlphaGo, created by ...
Los Angeles Times

Google’s artificial intelligence machine AlphaGo just beat the world’s No. 1 Go player

Reporting from WUZHEN, China — A computer defeated China’s top player of the ancient board game go on Tuesday, earning praise that it might have finally surpassed human abilities in one of the last ...
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 ...
The Verge

AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match

AlphaGo has again defeated Ke Jie, the world’s number one Go player, in their second game, meaning the AI has secured victory in the three-part match. The win over Ke, universally considered the best ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘AlphaGo’: Film Review

Documentarian Greg Kohs follows the team of programmers trying to build an algorithm for the world's most complicated game in 'AlphaGo.' By THR Staff One more milestone in humanity’s path to a ...