In a Nature study, Google showed that its AlphaGo Zero program trained itself to beat the world's best Go players without assistance from humans.

In yet another historic match up, Google DeepMind's AlphoGo defeated a team made up of five of the world's best human professional Go players.

Google’s AlphaGo made history last year by becoming the first machine to defeat a top-ranked human Go player. It was an important AI milestone, but AlphaGo isn’t getting off that easily. Next ...

In defeating Lee 4-1, DeepMind, the British startup acquired by Google in 2014 and developer of AlphaGo, achieved something that many computer scientists believed would be decades away. But the ...

Google's new artificial intelligence can defeat both humans and other AIs. Fortunately, the only battlefield where it fights and wins is the ancient board game Go. AlphaGo Zero, developed by ...

Google's AlphaGo beat Go world champion Ke Jie for a second time in as many days, taking an unassailable lead in the three-part series.

His opponent, AlphaGo, the machine built by researchers at Google's DeepMind lab, merely played the game. And in the end, as seemed inevitable, it won.

Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, left, shakes hands with Go champion Lee Sedol after DeepMind's AlphaGo player beat Sedol 4-1 in Korea in March 2016.

AlphaGo—which was created by DeepMind, Google’s AI division—is apparently “getting better,” according to one commentator, which says a lot, considering it was already pretty damn good.

DeepMind's Go-playing AI will take on the world's top-ranked player Ke Jie in Wuzhen, China, after defeating former Korean champion Lee Se-dol last year.

Google's AI star, AlphaGo, wins again. It bested Ke Jie, the world's best Go player, by just half a point -- the closest margin possible. After the match, Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis ...