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.

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 ...

March 2016 sees AlphaGo face its next professional opponent, the world's top Go player Lee Sedol. Follow the match here. A computer has beaten a human professional for the first time at Go — an ...