How Deepmind’s Demis Hassabis ushered in the dizzying rise of AI superintelligence

Demis Hassabis has been pondering what humans are supposed to do in the face of machine superintelligence for his entire life ...

Here's how much computing power Google DeepMind needed to beat Lee Sedol at Go

The AlphaGo program was run across several computers.

The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world

A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner ...
The Daily Dot

Google’s A.I. computer, AlphaGo, humbles European Go champ

Go is a board game that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago. It is played by 40 million-plus worldwide and is considered one of the four essential arts required of a true Chinese scholar.
New Scientist

The moment that kicked off the AI revolution

The first time that AlphaGo revealed its full power, it prompted a visceral reaction. Lee Sedol, the world’s greatest player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, had grown visibly agitated at the ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSNOpinion

Why AlphaGo's creator warns of AI dangers

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution began in 2016 when the Go AI AlphaGo defeated world champion Lee Sedol. Demis ...
The Manila Times

10 Years After AlphaGo, Lee Sedol Returns to Launch the Era of Agentic AI

Go grandmaster demonstrates the future of human and AI collaboration at the site of the historic AlphaGo match as Enhans ...
VentureBeat

DeepMind's AlphaZero beats state-of-the-art chess and shogi game engines

Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...