It has been believed that the AI programs that play the strategy game of Go had gone far beyond human capability by 2016. In March 2016, it beat human world champion Lee Sedol in a five-game match, ...

The game of Go has long been viewed as the most challenging of classic games for artificial intelligence owing to its enormous search space and the difficulty of evaluating board positions and moves.

South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol after the fourth match against Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, in Seoul, South Korea. We assembled some experts in game-playing AI and ...

Since the 1990s computers have continually gotten better at beating us at our own games like chess, checkers, poker and Jeopardy!. But there is one game at which expert human players continue to ...

As a leading go player falls to a machine, artificial intelligence takes a decisive step on the road to overtaking the natural variety As I write this column, a computer program called AlphaGo is ...

Do you want execution speed or developer speed? Memory safety or easy concurrency? Here’s how to decide between Rust and Go. In less than a decade, two new programming languages have emerged as major ...