Google’s AlphaGo AI retires after dominating humanity’s best players

AlphaGo, the A.I. that has consistently defeated the world’s greatest human Go players over the last two years, is retiring from the game. The robo-grandmaster will go out on top, after defeating China’s Ke Jie, the world’s top-ranked player. The team behind AlphaGo, part of Google’s DeepMind unit, say they still plan to publish an […]

Google’s AlphaGo AI beats world’s best human Go player

Enlarge / China’s 19-year-old Go player Ke Jie (L) prepares to make a move during the first match against Google’s artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in Wuzhen, east China’s Zhejiang province on May 23, 2017. (credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images) DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI has defeated Ke Jie in the first round of a best-of-three Go match in China. […]

Google’s AlphaGo AI defeats the world’s best human Go player

Google’s AI star, AlphaGo, wins again. It bested Ke Jie, the world’s best Go player, by just half a point — the closest margin possible. After the match, Google’s DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explained that this was how AlphaGo was programmed: to maximise its winning chances, rather than the winning margin. This latest iteration of […]

DeepMind’s AlphaGo takes on world’s top Go player in China

Enlarge (credit: DeepMind) Humanity has been granted one last attempt to beat its artificially intelligent overlords: Ke Jie, the world’s top-ranked Go player, will face down against DeepMind’s AlphaGo in China in a three-game match starting May 23. The odds are not good for Ke Jie: back in January AlphaGo secretly played 51 online matches against some […]