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New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs

Enlarge / Go pieces and a rulebook on a Go board. reader comments 84 with 72 posters participating Share this story In the world of deep-learning AI, the ancient board game Go looms large. Until 2016, the best human Go player could still defeat the strongest Go-playing AI. That changed with DeepMind’s AlphaGo, which used… Read More »

DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later

Enlarge / A colorful 3×3 matrix. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 46 with 37 posters participating Share this story Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix multiplication, conquering a 50-year-old record.… Read More »