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Google's new Go-playing AI learns fast, and even thrashed its former self

TechXplore - Fri 20 Oct 17

Just last year Google DeepMind's AlphaGo took the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by storm, showing that a computer program could beat the world's best human Go players.

Google creates AI that can teach itself and isn't 'constrained by the limits of human knowledge'

The Independent - Thu 19 Oct 17

It became one of the greatest Go players of all time in a matter of days, when humans have been playing the game for thousands of years

The latest AI can work things out without being taught

The Economist - Thu 19 Oct 17

IN 2016 Lee Sedol, one of the world’s best players of Go, lost a match in Seoul to a computer program called AlphaGo by four games to one. It was a big event, both in the history of Go ...

The AI That Dominated Humans in Go Is Already Obsolete

Discover Magazine - Wed 18 Oct 17

Remember AlphaGo? You know, the artificial intelligence that in 2016 soundly defeated the finest players humanity could muster in the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go; thus forcing us to ...

AlphaGo’s AI upgrade gets round the need for human input

Newscientist - Wed 18 Oct 17

AlphaGo Zero, Google DeepMind's artificially intelligent Go player, dominates humans and other AIs by learning itself – without any human training

Self-taught, 'superhuman' AI now even smarter: makers

Phys.org - Wed 18 Oct 17

The computer that stunned humanity by beating the best mortal players at a strategy board game requiring "intuition" has become even smarter, its makers said Wednesday.

Self-taught, 'superhuman' AI now even smarter: makers, SpaceDaily - Fri 20 Oct 17

World’s greatest game-playing computer thrashed by its next-gen

Cosmos Magazine - Wed 18 Oct 17

The program that beat the human champion of the fiendishly difficult game Go has itself been beaten by a machine that taught itself to play. Cathal O’Connell reports.

AlphaGo Zero Goes From Rank Beginner to Grandmaster in Three Days—Without Any Help

IEEE Spectrum - Wed 18 Oct 17

Google DeepMind takes deep neural networks where no machine has gone before

AlphaGo Zero Shows Machines Can Become Superhuman Without Any Help

MIT Technology Review - Wed 18 Oct 17

An upgraded version of the game-playing AI teaches itself every trick in the Go book, using a new form of machine learning.

The newest AlphaGo mastered the game with no human input

ScienceNews - Wed 18 Oct 17

AlphaGo Zero is the first AI system of its kind to learn the game just by playing against itself.

Google's AlphaGo Zero destroys humans all on its own - CNET

CNET - Fri 20 Oct 17

The new artificial neural network taught itself to master the ancient game Go within weeks, without any tips from humans.

Google DeepMind AlphaGo Zero AI Can Now Self-Train Without Human Input

HotHardware - Fri 20 Oct 17

Anyone out there who shares Elon Musk's fear of a Skynet apocalypse may find Google's latest AI dubbed AlphaGo Zero to be frightening. The new AI is the followup to the original AlphaZero ...

AlphaGo Zero - From Nought To Top In 40 Days

iProgrammer - Thu 19 Oct 17

DeepMind has revealed details of latest evolution of the computer program that plays the ancient Chinese board game of black and white stones. Unlike previous versions. which were trained with ...

The AI buster-buster: new machine dominates AI that dominated humans at Go

ZME Science - Thu 19 Oct 17

It seems our AI overlords have overlords of themselves.

Google's AlphaGo AI no longer requires human input to master Go

Engadget - Thu 19 Oct 17

Google's AlphaGo already beat us puny humans to become the best at the Chinese board game of Go. Now, it's done with humans altogether. DeepMind, the Alphabet subsidiary behind ...

Self-Taught AlphaGo Zero ‘Strongest Go Player in History’

Geek.com - Thu 19 Oct 17

There is no rest for the weary artificial intelligence: In the five months since being crowned world Go champion, AlphaGo has become stronger, smarter, and more powerful than ever. *Insert training ...

New neural network teaches itself Go, spanks the pros

Ars Technica - Wed 18 Oct 17

This time, the Go-playing algorithm didn’t need any human players to help it.

Google's AlphaGo can now teach ITSELF how to win at Go

Daily Mail - Wed 18 Oct 17

Researchers from Google's London-based DeepMind have unveiled the new AlphaGo Zero system in a study published in Nature today.

DeepMind’s Go-playing AI doesn’t need human help to beat us anymore

The Verge - Wed 18 Oct 17

Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind has unveiled the latest version of its Go-playing software, AlphaGo Zero. The new program is a significantly better player than the version that ...

AlphaGo The Movie - Who Is The Hero?

iProgrammer - Sun 15 Oct 17

A movie about a program that beats a human at a game? Probably not what you might expect, but AlphaGo is a movie about man versus machine and in this case the machine wins. Read more...

DeepMind’s New AI Taught Itself to Be the World’s Greatest Go Player

SingularityHub - Mon 23 Oct 17

The AlphaGo AI that grabbed headlines last year after beating a master of the board game Go has just been trounced 100-0 by an updated version. And unlike its predecessor, the new system taught ...

AlphaGo Zero AI teaches itself to play Go better than any human, or other AI, ever

Techradar - Thu 19 Oct 17

Google’s DeepMind team has created a new version of its AI called AlphaGo Zero that is able to ‘create knowledge itself’.

Self-taught programme beats humans at Go game

The Hindu - Sun 22 Oct 17

Go is a traditional Chinese board game played on a checkerboard with ‘stones’ of two colours

Self-taught program beats humans at Go game, The Hindu - Sat 21 Oct 17

IIT Madras develops algorithms that learn like humans

The Hindu - Sat 14 Oct 17

Deep reinforcement learning is a way for AI to learn from its mistakes