New Atlas

2017: The year AI beat us at all our own games

For much of the 20th century, the game of chess served as a benchmark for artificial intelligence researchers. John McCarthy, who coined the term "artificial intelligence" back in the early 1950s, ...
Mashable

After getting crushed by Google's AlphaGo, humanity's top Go player will try to beat Chinese AI

The World's top human player Ke Jie competes against Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in May 2017. Credit: VCG via Getty Images Google's AI program AlphaGo whipped the world's top ...
Mashable

Is the AlphaGo AI the best in the world? We're about to find out.

South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol reviews the match after winning against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo. Credit: Lee Jin-man/AP/REX ...
New Scientist

DeepMind’s AlphaGo is secretly beating human players online

Google DeepMind’s Go-playing AI has done it again. After beating top player Lee Sedol at the ancient Chinese game in 2016, the AlphaGo AI has been secretly taking on more of the world’s best players – ...
InfoWorld

Reinforcement learning explained

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, ...