DeepMind, part of Google, has been honing its efforts in creating championship-level games playing AIs. If you remember back to early last year the AlphaGo system surpassed all previous attempts at an ...

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 ...

AlphaGo, the board-game-playing AI built by Google's DeepMind subsidiary, just got a huge update, making it smarter — and potentially creepier — than ever before. In a paper published in Nature, the ...

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 ...

“The results are stunning,” says Jonathan Schaeffer, a computer scientist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, who wasn’t involved in the work. “We’re talking about a revolutionary change ...

Reinforcement learning uses rewards and penalties to teach computers how to play games and robots how to perform tasks independently You have probably heard about Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AlphaGo, the board-game-playing AI built by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary, just got a huge update, making it smarter — and ...