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 ...

Anyone out there who shares Elon Musk's fear of a Skynet apocalypse may find Google's latest AI dubbed AlphaGo Zero to be frightening. The new AI is the followup to the original AlphaZero AI that ...

DeepMind's human-conquering AlphaGo AI just got even smarter. The firm's latest Go-playing system not only defeated all previous versions of the software, it did it all by itself. "The most striking ...

Last year, an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo created by Google’s DeepMind team beat a human champion at Go, an ancient Chinese strategy game that is in many ways more complex than ...

Perhaps we should have seen this coming. After all, AlphaGo’s prowess depended on the expertise of humans in the first place. Its artificial neural network was trained on a vast library of games ...

“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, ...