Google's AlphaGo is slowly but surely becoming the best Go player in the world, with one key difference: Unlike other top players, it's not human. It's an artificial intelligence. Kicking off The ...

The World's top human player Ke Jie competes against Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in May 2017. Credit: VCG via Getty Images Google's AI program AlphaGo whipped the world's top ...

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In the spring of 2017, a year after the match in Korea, AlphaGo played its next match, in Wuzhen, China, an ancient water town 80 miles south of Shanghai along the Yangtze River. With its lily ponds, ...

A China-developed artificial intelligence program defeated the world’s second-ranked Go player on Friday afternoon, nearly a year after the same player lost to AlphaGo, an AI project backed by Google, ...