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.

Journalists watch a big screen showing live footage of the third game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match between Lee Se-Dol and AlphaGo at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea, on Mar. 12, 2016.

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 ...

Demis Hassabis, head of Google's DeepMind, predicts the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) will be ten times greater and faster than the Industrial Revolution.

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.