Google ‘Go’ Computer Outsmarts Previous Tech—Without Human Input

Experts review moves during the Go match between 19-year-old Ke Jie and Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in Wuzhen, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province on May 27, 2017. STR/AFP/Getty Images

There’s a new whiz kid in the tech world—but it is a narrow-minded loner.

Google’s latest artificial intelligence creation can beat all comers, human and machine alike, at the hardest game in the world, and it has figured it out solely by playing against itself.