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

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
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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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.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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