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 ...

“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 ...

Brin said that instead of replacing humans, AI could push humans to perform better, like how DeepMind's AlphaGo pushed boundaries for top Go players.

Google shocked the world in 2016 when AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program created specifically to play the ancient board game Go, defeated one of the game’s top competitors in a five-game ...

Humankind lost another important battle with artificial intelligence (AI) last month when AlphaGo beat the world’s leading Go player Kie Je by three games to zero. Kie Je described AlphaGo’s skill as ...

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 ...

Ke Jie, widely regarded as the world’s best player of the Chinese game of Go, has lost the second of three games in a match against Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI. That’s despite the AI’s estimation ...

Ke Jie, left, lost his first game against the artificial intelligence program AlphaGo. In the first of several games being held in China this week, a revamped AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, a Chinese ...

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 ...

Humankind lost another important battle with artificial intelligence (AI) last month, when AlphaGo beat the world’s leading Go player Ke Jie by three games to zero. Ke Jie described AlphaGo’s skill as ...