Google-developed AI program AlphaGo defeated top-ranked go player Lee Se-dol of Korea in their fifth and final game in Seoul, Tuesday, which ran neck-and-neck for five hours. Lee lost after 280 ...

Other games have been important over the decades as AI, or just thinking machines in general, developed. In 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat one of the world’s highest-ranked players of ...

The game, which can be played in person and online, also once posed a computational challenge for AI researchers. In 2016, the Go world was rocked after Lee was defeated by AlphaGo, an AI program ...

The match reached a critical juncture in Game 2 with Move 37, where AlphaGo made a move so unconventional and creative that it stunned both the audience and Lee Sedol himself. This moment has ...

Scholars Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton pioneered reinforcement learning long before it became a key tool in AI.