“It has 10 170 possible board positions ... It marked the first time that a Go computer program defeated a human professional player in a full game, played without giving the computer ...

It described the ongoing—and, to that point, fruitless—quest by artificial intelligence researchers to build a computer program that could defeat a top human player at Go, a board game that ...

A program designed by Google (GOOG) researchers has become the first to defeat a professional human player at the ancient Asian game of Go. Google ... adept at classic board games like backgammon.

“Go is the probably the most complex board game humans play ... could reach a level that is beyond any human,” he said. In tests against other Go computer games on the market, AlphaGo won ...

A year after a computer beat a human world champion in the ancient strategy game of Go, researchers say they have constructed an even stronger version of the program — one that can teach itself ...

But there is one game at which expert human players continue to dominate machines: Go. The more than 2,500-year-old board game ... Amazon and also creator of a computer Go program who was not ...

On each screen, you can see a Go board -- a grid of 19 lines ... neither of which was implemented or tested against humans. Finally, in 1968, computer game theory genius Alfred Zobrist authored ...

A human player has thoroughly beaten a top AI in board game Go by exploiting a weakness within the system, though humanity's triumph could be tarnished by the fact it took another computer to ...

as a human player managed to snaffle a win against an AI in Go, considered by some to be the most complex board game ever devised (there are more possible games of Go than there are atoms in the ...

In 2016 a computer ... s Deep Blue. Go, which involves players facing off by moving black and white pieces called stones with the goal of occupying territory on the game board, had been viewed ...

AlphaGo had solved one of computer science’s greatest challenges: teaching itself the abstract strategy needed to win at Go, widely considered the world’s most complex board game.