Google's computer program AlphaGo defeated its human opponent, South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, on Wednesday in the first face-off of a historic five-game match.

Human Go champion Lee Sedol says Google's Go-playing program AlphaGo is not yet superior to humans, despite its 4-1 victory in a series that ended Tuesday.

The grandmaster-beating AlphaGo “artificial intelligence,” developed by Google’s DeepMind division, stopped playing Go against mere humans back in May. However, that iteration of the ...

Earlier this year, Google DeepMind put AlphaGo onto online board game platforms to test the machine further against humans. AlphaGo clocked 60 wins and zero losses.

DeepMind has already begun using AlphaGo Zero to study protein folding and has promised it will soon publish new findings. Misfolded proteins are responsible for devastating diseases, including ...

Google DeepMind tackled this complexity with an advanced tree search and deep neural network. The company trained the neural network by feeding it 30 million moves made by Go experts.