Google’s DeepMind unveils AlphaGo AI that learns from itself and beat its predecessors

DeepMind, a division of Google that’s focused on advancing artificial intelligence research, unveiled a new version of its AlphaGo program today that learned the game solely by playing itself.
Called AlphaGo Zero, the system works by learning from the outcomes of its self-play games, using a machine learning technique called reinforcement learning. As Zero was continuously trained, the system began learning advanced concepts in the game of Go on its own and picking out certain advantageous